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Support and Objections 



parfy/fundraiser for the Gay Outreach Program for the SFPD. (Photo by Rink) 


Program Begins 2nd Year 

Gay Police 
Outreach Party 

by Hav Gefter 


“Cruising” Controversy 
Heats Up 

FILM MAY NOT OPEN ON TIME 

The ad hoc committee formed to protest the controversial film “Cruising” received a welcome 
boost January 19 when the Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club endorsed their efforts. 


After a heated debate at their recent meeting, the Milk Club members voted to endorse all efforts 


to stop the showing of the film. ' 
ported the efforts and not any sp 

The United Artists film, 
which is scheduled to open 
February 15 at the Ghirardelli 
Cinema in Northpoint, has 
been the subject of consider¬ 
able debate since its filming in 
New York City last summer. At 
that time near riots occurred in 
New York’s Greenwich Village 
and lower west side when the 
filmmakers were on location. 
“Cruising” will be released to 
600 theaters across the U.S. 
and Canada and will open 
simultaneously. 


le motion’s makers were quick t< 
;ific group. 

The group calling themselves 
“Stop the Movie Cruising" 
have been meeting weekly at 
the MCC Church. They have 
set up a table on Castro Street 
(and soon one on Polk Street) 
distributing literature and solic¬ 
iting contributions. 

On Friday, Feb. 1. at Noon 
the committee is organizing a 
demonstration at the 
Transamerica Building at 600 
Montgomery Street. The 
Transamerica Corporation is 


point out that their motion sup- 

the parent company of United 
Artists. A demonstration is also 
planned at the Ghirardelli 
Cinema the night the film 
opens. 

On Thursday, Feb. 7. a 
panel discussion will be held at 
the Everett Junior High School 
at 450 Church Street. The 
panel who will debate the pros 
and cons will include Lesbian/ 
feminist Priscilla Alexander, 
Lesbian S&M advocate Pat 
Colifio, Gay rights attorney 

(Continued on page 2) 



Recent Gay protest line of city’s INS building. Transamerica and Ghirardelli Cinema are next over film “Cruis¬ 
ing. ” (Photo by Rink) 


For three hours in the late 
afternoon Sunday, Jan. 26, 
the party room in the home of 
Supervisor & Mrs. John Moli- 
nari was a crush of flushed and 
high-spirited Gays and sup¬ 
porters who paid $15 a head to 
support Les Morgan and his 
Gay Outreach program, now 
starting its second year. 

★ ★ ★ 

Morgan, a Gay who by day 
is a mild-mannered Clark Kent, 
a computer worker, turns in the 
rest of his spare time into what 
has been his one-man crusade, 
to openly breach the civil serv¬ 
ice system of San Francisco 
and change it by drawing more 
Gays into the police depart¬ 
ment. His program Gay Out¬ 
reach hasn’t won the support of 
city funds, but it does have the 
open approval of City Hall and 
Police Chief Cornelius 
Murphy, who was listed on the 
Alice B. Toklas Club invitation 
as the Special Guest. Les was 
at the party, looking and 
sounding like he is riding on a 
high steed, talking to all 
comers, poo-pooing rumors of 
opposition, strategically posing 
for photos with Chief Murphy. 

Not surprisingly for many in 
the SFPD, Les Morgan has 
created a job for himself, which 
they feel a man is entitled to 


No Resolution In 
Opera House Scandal 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES CHAIRMAN WILL SACK GAY 

by George Heymont 

The case of Michael Raines versus the Board of Trustees of the War Memorial Opera House races 
toward a final, tense countdown this week. The Mayor has been working behind the scenes to de¬ 
velop a solution to the problem which would be acceptable to Raines and his attorney. A solution 
was found which proved acceptable to members of the Board. But no sooner had the Mayor left 
town on her honeymoon than Philip Boone (President of the Board and the man most violently 
opposed to Raines) started maneuvering to sabotabe the Mayor’s attempts to reconcile the situation. 

Essentially, the Mayor and Center Foundation. Raines and extensive work as an out- 
Adrian Gruhn (the trustee who had laid the groundwork for reach entrepreneur. Raines in- 
has rnost vociferously sup- this position in his work as tends to use this position to 
ported Raines) devised a plan Managing Director of the War help channel foundation 
whereby Raines would become Memorial. The new job would money to community perform- 
Director of the Performing Arts entail fundraising for the PAC (Continued on none 5) 


do. Yet his contribution to the 
police ranks is another ques¬ 
tion. Only last week the S.F. 
Examiner printed a letter from 
a police lieutenant attacking 
Morgan’s basic concept: that 
Gays belong on the police 
force, and will improve its 
quality. In the police locker 
rooms, some may sneer about 
Gay Outreach, but there is no 
movement within the ranks to 
oppose it. Some in the police 
ranks, who have seen nothing 
but the extremes of Gay life, 
still believe that homosexuality 
is so perverse a behavior that 
Gays should be automatically 
excluded from serving as 
police. Most officers have a 
shrug attitude and say, “If they 
can cut the mustard, fine. 
That’s all we ask.” 


After one year, Morgan’s 
program warrants notice. It is 
modest, but it is significant. 
Once a Gay has made up their 
mind to become a police offi¬ 
cer, the success rate is twice as 
high as for other applicants, 
and when scoring is compared, 
Gays have more of their num¬ 
ber in the high scores, and 
fewer in the low scores. Still, as 
Morgan himself says, the pro¬ 
gram “is only a tiny ripple in the 
sea of change.” After 12 
months, there are 16 more 
(Continued on page 4) 


VOL. 10 NO. 3 JANUARY 31, 1980 

NEXT ISSUE OUT: FEB. 14 NEXT DEADLINE: FEB. 8 

Inside B«A«R» This Issue 


• The Opera House discrimination 
against Gay employee - George Heymont.p. 5 


• “Great Outdoors” to take 

San Francisco again?.P- 8 

• How to Halt Assault from CUAV.p. 12 

• New column from Hayward — 

Greater Bay News.P- 17 

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Ron Albers and author Dan 
Curzon. The evening is free to 
the public and begins at 
7:30PM. The discussion will be 
taped and broadcast February 
16 and 17. 

The committee has also 
scheduled a fundraiser at the 
Women’s Building on 18th 
Street Tuesday, Feb. 12. The 
committee is also distributing 
buttons and coat stickers. 

Spokespersons for the ad 
hoc committee assured the 
B.A.R. that they neither en¬ 
courage nor condone any vio¬ 
lence during the protest 
demonstrations. However, 
should the protests be less than 
peaceful, they are arranging to 
have monitors and medical aid 
teams at the demonstration 
sites. 

The manager of the Ghirar- 
delli Cinema told B.A.R. that 
his theater has already received 
bomb threats. The film will also 
open in Oakland at either the 
Parkway or the Rockridge and 
no reports have been received 
from that source. The Ghirar- 
delli has also received threaten¬ 
ing anonymous phone calls, 
and the manager told B.A.R. 


that while he doesn’t mind a 
few pickets (which everyone 
agrees is good for business), he 
fears for the worst. 

The manager, when 
queried, said the matter was 
entirely out of his hands. The 
decision to run the film was 
made months ago, and that re¬ 
gardless of the film’s content it 
will run. It is *all a matter of 
dollars and cents, signed con¬ 
tracts. and a distribution policy 
that no one (according to the 
manager) can break. 

Much controversy has cen¬ 
tered around a screening of the 
film — to which would be in¬ 
vited civic officials and repre¬ 
sentatives of the Gay commu¬ 
nity. To date the producers 
have resisted any attempts to 
preview the film. According to 
members of the ad hoc com¬ 
mittee, this is by design to frus¬ 
trate critics and to build antici¬ 
pation. The Ghirardelli man¬ 
ager said if there was a screen¬ 
ing those attending could regis¬ 
ter their reaction whether the 
film is “good" or “bad." When 
asked what would happen if all 
attending responded that the 
film was “bad,” the manager 
said the film would run regard¬ 


less. 


The Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club at its recent election of officers meet¬ 
ing in the Women's Building. At this same meeting the members voted to 
endorse the efforts to stop the movie “Cruising. ” (Photo by Rink) 


Meanwhile, to compound 
the intrigue, a report reached 
the B.A.R. from R. Paul 
Martin, spokesperson for New 
York City’s Gay Media Alli¬ 
ance, that the scheduled 
February 15 release date is “no 
longer a firm date." According 


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to Martin, a highly-placed 
source in United Artists Corp. 
told the Gay Media Alliance 
that the date is now “tentative.” 
Technical production problems 
were intimated as the reason 
United Artists is hedging on the 
previously scheduled release 
date. 

Through other sources, said 
Martin, the Gay Media Alliance 
has heard that audio editing 
difficulties and internal sabo¬ 
tage of certain distribution- 
related aspects of the film may 
be at the heart of the new un¬ 
certainty about the release 
date. Still such rumors could be 
attributable to one more pub¬ 
licity stunt on the part of the 
film producers. In any event, a 
“tentative” release seems to 
contradict with statements of 
the local theater management 
who suggested the booking 
and running time of a film are 
inexorable events. 

B.A.R. was both praised and 
criticized for its stand to en¬ 
dorse the work of the commit¬ 
tee and cause the film industry 
problems. The debate contin¬ 


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freedom of expression versus 
the absolute right of protesting 
an incendiary work. To date 
the only evidence ' the 
protesters have at their disposal 
is a purloined shooting script 
which has been widely circu¬ 
lated within the Gay commu¬ 
nity. Everyone agrees that the 
final product might not coin¬ 
cide with the screenplay (no 
one knows what will end up on 
the cutting room floor) but re¬ 
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“What else do we have to go 
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they’re not starting with a script 
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Persons inside the film 
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“Cruising’s” producers have 
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press agent commented. “If the 
ad hoc committee hadn't set up 
a table on Castro. I would have 
set one up myself were I hyping 
the film." 


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Ndwly chosen Police Commissioner Jo Daly chats with SFPD Chief Murphy 
at the Golden Gate Business Ass’n banquet at Irish American Cultural Hall on 
45th Avenue. (Photo by Rink) 


GAY POLICE OUTREACH 


(Continued from page 1) 


Hav Gefter 


Gay-Lesbian police officers in 
San Francisco. 


Drinking and laughing, chat¬ 
ting and listening, among the 
party-makers in Supervisor 
Molinari’s crowded party room 
eight of the new recruits, Lesbi¬ 
ans and homos (?!) talked 
about their experience. But Les 
Morgan, jealous shepherd of 
his flock, has urged upon them 
that at this beginning point in 
their experience, they had best 
not use their names for public¬ 
ity. The recruits themselves, at 
least some I spoke to, were 
willing at some time to “come 
out of the closet” with their 
names in public, but Morgan 
stresses that this is not yet the 
time. 


CompulerlorKT 


Morgan commented, “We 
don’t want media coverage of 
personalities until the recruits 
are out of their probationary 
period because they can be 
terminated for any reason. 
There has been a media policy 
in the Police Academy: Main¬ 
tain a low profile.” 

Last year when Chief Gain 
was in office, the policy was for 
the Gay Outreach recruits to 
withhold their names. How¬ 
ever, under Chief Murphy, this 
policy may change. Mean¬ 
while, a first workshop is 
scheduled for the new recruits 
on Monday, Feb. 4. 

All of the Board of Super¬ 
visors were listed on the invita¬ 
tion, except one — Quentin 
Kopp. Quentin has supported 
Morgan’s program from the be¬ 
ginning; but because of 
personal strained relations be¬ 
tween Molinari and Kopp, 
Kopp chose not to appear in 
Molinari’s home. And for that 


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banquet. (Photo by Rink) 


reason his name was left off the 
invitation. Not all of the other 
ten Supervisors attended the 
benefit. 

Harry Britt was on the invita¬ 
tion, but not present. Instead, 
Harry was in Seattle, a speaker 
at a fundraiser. 

At the party, Les Morgan 
was in a confident mood. His 
response to the Examiner 
article questioning his value 
was to dismiss it as unimpor¬ 
tant. Chief Murphy said of the 
same printed criticism, “I’m 
glad he spoke out. But he 
doesn’t speak for me. He 
doesn’t speak for you.” 

Among Supervisors present, 
in addition to John Molinari as 
host, looking his usual fascinat¬ 
ing de Medici best, were Carol 
Ruth Silver, Don Horanzy, Ella 
Hutch, and new Board mem¬ 
bers John Bardis and Doris 
Ward. Harry Britt was on the 
invitation but not present. In¬ 
stead, Harry was in Seattle, a 
speaker at a fundraiser for the 
National Convention Project. 
Nancy Walker had a similar 
conflict, but said she was “there 
in spirit.” Assessor Sam Duca 


was there, as was newly- 
appointed Lesbian police 
commissioner Jo Daly. Newly- 
elected District Attorney Arlo 
Smith was there to show his 
approval of the program. Mike 
Hennessey and Milton Marks 
were there also. 

The financial support raised 
from this cocktail party — 
$1543 — will keep the Gay 
Outreach program going until 


the next contributions, which 
Morgan welcomes. “We are 
proud,” he said, “that allbf our 
financial support comes from 
private supporters.” 


If you’ve toyed with the idea 
of joining the SFPD, Les 
Morgan wants you to call him 
directly: 776-1000. Work¬ 

shops for Gay recruits are held 
at regular intervals. 


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San Diego, CA 

Have you ever been to a 
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Judge Edward T. Butler, ifyou 

Judge Edward T. Butler, if you 
haven’t been patronizing a 
house of prostitution, you have 
not been to a house of ill fame. 
San Diego law enforcement 
authorities, long noted for their 
tolerance and encouragement 
of divergent lifestyles, have 
been trying for a year to close 
down peep shows under the 
pretext that they are “houses of 
ill fame,” illegal in that SoCal 
community since 1852. 

The City Attorney had de¬ 
cided that since the peep show 
owners were not preventing 
lewd conduct on their premises 
by patrons, lewd conduct 
should be included among 
activities that occur in places of 
“ill fame.” A rather original in¬ 
terpretation of the 19th century 
law which for more than a cen¬ 
tury has applied exclusively to 
prostitution. 

Last June Anthony Monaco 
and Robert Clark were convict¬ 
ed of operating a “house of ill 
fame” on evidence that lewd 
conduct had taken place at the 
Lyric Bookstore, owned and 


operated respectively by the 
two. When the Supreme Court 
redefined the “unconstitution¬ 
ally vague” definition of lewd 
conduct, Monaco and Clark 
were given a new trial. At this 
point their attorney decided to 
request the Superior Court to 
nix the city’s interpretation of 
“house of ill fame.” 


Meanwhile, Philadelphia’s 
Gay News reports that plain¬ 
clothes police have been arrest¬ 
ing patrons and clerks of Gay 
porno stores in that city. The 
victims usually are middle-aged 
less-obvious Gay types who 
make some kind of approach 
to an officer. The clerk of the 
bookstore was arrested on the 
grounds that the clerk, by tak¬ 
ing money from an officer to 
admit him to a place where he 
was approached for sex, was 
participating in a form of prosti¬ 
tution. The police tactic seems 
aimed at harassment rather 
than precedent, because the 
charges (against the clerk) were 
dropped before going to court. 

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No Resolution In 
Opera House Scandal 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES CHAIRMAN 
WILL SACK GAY 

ing arts groups, enabling them Feinstein’s delay in cracking 
to make use of the PAC. This is the whip on the Board of 
similar to his previous work in Trustees is reminiscent of her 
Detroit. The aim of this pro- infamous waffling during the 
gram is twofold: It ensures full crisis surrounding Police Chief 
use of the performing arts facili- Charles Gain. The trustees pre¬ 
ties while developing rental sent a serious obstacle. Lily 
revenue. It also involves the Cuneo is famous for her phone 
community subgroups more call to the head of the Citizens 
actively in the city’s performing Committee for Reform of the 
arts profile, thus preventing War Memorial. As Jean duLac 
minority arts groups from feel- listened in awe, Cuneo 
ing alienated from mainstream chirped, “I just spoke to the 
arts activities. Mayor’s office and told them I 

think you’re a psychotic.” She 
On January 9 Raines re- told a reporter from The Voice 
ceived word that Boone was that, as a member of the 
planning to introduce a motion Search Committee, she could 
to fire him at the Board meet- assure him there was no intent 
ing the following day. Raines to discriminate against Raines, 
called Deputy Mayor Hadley But once the Board went into 
Roff and announced his inten- executive session on the 10th, 
tions to throw the situation Cuneo snorted (in the best Earl 
open to public hearings under Butz tradition) “Goddammit, 
the provisions of the Brown these homosexuals have gotten 
Act. Within 20 minutes the too much power!” Members of 
Mayor is reported to have been the Board politely shushed her 
on the phone to Adrian Gruhn, up. The outburst occurred after 
begging, “We can’t have this attorney Matthew Coles from 
happen, it could be terribly di- Gay Rights Advocates in- 
visive.” Gruhn tersely replied, formed the Board of Raines’ 
“I told you that three months legal rights, leaving the trustees 
ago, Dianne.” “Well, I’ve been in a quandary about the politi- 
very busy. I had a campaign to cal ramifications if they fire 
run. Now we can’t dwell on the Raines, 
past, Adrian, we’ve got to work 

for the future,” was Feinstein’s Those specific political rami- 
frantic reply. fications have the Mayor’s 

office running scared, although 
When queried at the GGBA Feinstein, at press time, is 
annual dinner, Feinstein ex- backing off from the crisis, 
pressed hopes that the situation Feinstein does not relish the 
could be resolved amicably, thought of being hauled over 
She then delivered a speech to the coals in the national press 
the audience about how as a co-defendant in a lawsuit 
“there’s room for everybody,” alleging discrimination in her 
stressing that we benefit from administration based on sexual 
our diversity as a population, orientation. She would be ill- 
None of this has touched advised to underestimate the 
Boone, who continues to hold concern within the Gay com- 
“executive session” meetings il- munity as San Franciscans wait 
legally, including one session to see if the first Gay appointed 
held in his home. as head of a city agency will be 

destroyed by a raging homo- 
Boone’s method of opera- phobe while the Mayor looks 
tion has been to approach the the other way. Supervisor 
San Francisco Foundation and Carol Ruth Silver remarked, “It 
discredit Raines as much as just shows that Dianne can be 
possible. He then telephoned pushed around.” 
various Board members insinu¬ 
ating that “You can’t sell them Boone’s illegal wheeling and 
something they won’t buy, and dealing behind the scenes are 
they just won’t buy Raines.” cause enough for his removal 
Money can easily be found from office under regulations of 
from sources other than the the city charter. It is imperative 
San Francisco Foundation to that the Mayor, in addition to 
fund the compromise position, seeking a peaceful solution, de- 
In the meantime, faced with a mand Boone’s immediate 
deadline of February 1 (when resignation as President of the 
George Matson is supposed to Board of Trustees. To date, the 
step into his new “position” as trustees have had no com- 
Managing Director of the PAC) plaints about Raines’ 
Boone is fiercely maneuvering performance on the job. Nor 
behind the scenes to get have any of them opposed his 
Matson in and destroy Raines’ appointment to the new posi- 
career as much as possible. To tion as Director of the Perform- 
date, Boone has managed to ing Arts Center Foundation, 
get the Civil Service Commis- Boone persists in pursuing a 
sion to okay Matson’s salary personal vendetta against 
(for Raines’ current position) at Raines. If the situation results in 
the fifth salary increment, a lawsuit, Raines will be forced 
Raines now gets about to turn to the Gay community 
$29,000. Matson would start at for support. 

$34,000. This is despite the 

fact that (a) Matson is far less When Feinstein protested 
qualified than Raines for the that perhaps this was just a case 
job (b) the Board of Supervis- of a personality conflict, one 
ors has not given their approval local Gay leader looked the 
to the new position (c) the Mayor straight in the eye and 
Board of Trustees has not ap- said, “No, Dianne, this IS dis- 
pointed Matson to the new crimination.” Feinstein’s failure 
position, and (d) the Human to comprehend the graveness 
Rights Commission has cited of the situation is of serious 
the Board as. being in flagrant concern to the Gay commu- 
violation of the law for discrimi- nity. Her ability to resolve the 
nating against Raines in the crisis at the Oper House may 
interview process. One source well prove to be the deciding 
revealed that Boone did, in factor in any continued support 
fact, inform the search firm of she receives from the Gay 
Heidrick & Struggles not to community, 
present Raines as an interview 
candidate. George Heymont 


New Staffer 
for G.R.A. 


G.R.A. WINS 
G.G.B.A. AWARD 

Gay Rights Advocates has 
announced that Mary Dunlap, 
a prominent civil rights attor¬ 
ney, has joined their staff. Ms. 
Dunlap has extensive experi¬ 
ence in sex discrimination and 
Gay rights cases. She argued 
Berg u. Richmond Unified 
School District, the pregnancy 
leave for schoolteachers case, 
before the United States Su¬ 
preme Court, and Saal u. Mid- 
dendorf, the Lesbian Naval dis¬ 
charge case, before the Ninth 
Circuit Court of Appeals. 



Ms. Dunlap, who is co¬ 
founder of Equal Rights Advo¬ 
cates, a feminist public interest 
law firm based in San Francis¬ 
co, is a graduate of the Univer¬ 
sity of California’s Boalt Hall 
and presently teaches at Gold¬ 
en Gate University’s School of 
Law. She has served on the 
boards of the American Civil 
Liberties Union of Northern 
California and the Lesbian 
Rights Project. She has written 
a book and several articles on 
sex discrimination, equal 
opportunity employment, and 
the constitutional rights of 
sexual minorities. 

G.R.A. were the recent re¬ 
cipients of the Golden Gate 
Business Association’s annual 
award for outstanding service 
to the local Gay community. 
The award was presented 
January 17 at the annual 
G.G.B.A. installation of offi- 
cers banquet. 


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VOL. 10 NO. 3 JANUARY 31, 1980 


NEXT ISSUE OUT: FEB. 14 


NEXT DEADLINE: FEB. 8 


B.A.R. 

BAY AREA REPORTER 

D-v Bento t^rerp' ses 

Copyright 1980 


Executive & Editorial Offices 

1528 15th Street 
San Francisco, CA 94 i 03 
Telephones (415) 
861-5019/861-7230 


PUBLISHER: Bob Ross 
EDITOR: Paul F. Lorch 


Fine Arts Editor 

George Heymont 


Political Editor 

Wayne Friday 


Peninsula & East Bay Rep. 

Gene Earl 


Typesetting 

Tony Perry 


Advertising Rep. 

Ron Olthaus 


Contributors 

Priscilla Alexander 
Adam Block 
Mark Brown 
Gene Earl 
Curtis Ellis 
Wayne Friday 
Hav Gefter 
Paul-Francis Hartmann 
George Heymont 
Frank J. Howell 
John Karr 
Michael Lasky 
A. Marc Leventhal 
Marcus Manulis 
Claudia Moomjy 
Mark Topkin 
Dan Turner 
Dick Walters 

BAR reserves the right to 
edit or reject any ad which the 
publisher believes is in poor 
taste or which advertises Illegal 
items which might result in legal 
action against B.A.R. Ads will not 
be rejected solely on the basis of 
politics, philosophy, religion, race, 
age or sexual preference. 


Boy Area Reporter is published bi-weekly. 
Advertising rates are available on re¬ 
quest. Our list of subscribers and adver- 
tisters is confidential and is not sold. 

Publication of photos, ads and articles 
does not necessarily mean that the sub¬ 
ject matter is Gay-oriented. 


Viewpoint 

BACK C.U.A.V. 

The crime “honors” have come in for 1979. When 
jumbled together, the overall increase in seven major 
categories was only .5 percent according to year-end sta¬ 
tistics. From that easy perspective police officials in a con¬ 
gratulatory verve announced that “crime leveled off last 
year in San Francisco.” 

Looking at these categories which comprise the crimes 
of violence, murder, rape, and aggravate, we read a dif¬ 
ferent scenario. That rape and murder average out with 
auto theft is a macabre mathematics. 

In 1979, 123 San Franciscans were murdered, 6509 
were robbed (up almost 3% from the previous year), 
6509 were the victims of violent attack (up 2.2%). These 
are crimes of the streets and those to which Gay people 
are particularly susceptible. Where they occur is also of 
significance and we suspect they are specialty events in 
some parts of the city as opposed to others. 

Life and property are more secure in the Sunset than 
the Mission. A standard response from the police depart¬ 
ment has been that they are understaffed and these 
crimes occur when they aren’t around (yet where are 
they?) and are almost impossible to solve. 

The latest cop-out is that they are largely the work of 
juveniles and now — of many from outside the city. 

The Community United Against Violence (CUAV), on 
the other hand, from their own research can tell you 
where the crimes occur, when they occur, and to a sig¬ 
nificant degree who’s perpetrating them. (Their findings 
are reported elsewhere in this issue.) CUAV has recently 
reorganized itself and will shortly reconstitute its patrols. 
Similarly, CUAV are contemplating more aggressive 
policies to stem, if not reduce, the tide of violence. (The 
B.A.R. welcomes the shift and encourages them in what¬ 
ever steps they take.) 

We urge all Gay activist groups, clubs, associations to 
restudy their priorities and address the primary feature of 
the American dream: life, liberty and the pursuit of 
happiness. Without life — safety and security — all other 
benefits and developments pale in insignificance. The 
CUAV deserves the total attention of the community until 
the streets are safe. 

(Continued on page 8) 


Letters I 


• •• 


SEX ON A CABLE CAR 

★ I would like to share the fun I had this morning on 
the California St. cable car on my way to church. 

I got on the car at Van Ness at 10:30AM. I took the 
very front seat outside. As the car stopped at Hyde 
Street a man and his wife got on the running board, 
he directly in front of me and she in front of the per¬ 
son next to me. As the car started to move up Nob 
Hill I became aware that the man’s groin was resting 
against my knee. I started to talk with the both of 
them — the fine weather, they from Boston, etc. I 
moved my knee and slouched in my seat to bring my 
knee into further, firmer contact with his groin. 

As we passed the Mark I became aware that the 
man was now really pressing very firmly against my 
knee and that his cock was becoming very firm. I 
looked him square in the face and gave him my best 
smile — which he returned. 1 then moved my knee 
from side to side enjoying the sensation of his erec¬ 
tion on my knee and along the upper part of the calf 
of my leg. 

As the car descended to Powell, to Stockton, and 
to Grant, the intimacy of our mutual contact became 
more and more intense. 1 was expecting him to ex¬ 
plode at any moment. His virile member was fully 
erect and very hot! 

As we came to Grant Street I said. “I’m sorry, 1 
have to get off here.” As he moved aside I heard him 
say, “Me too!” I jumped down and darted to the 
corner and turned to wave to the nice couple from 
Boston. He smiled and waved back to me as his wife 
took my seat. 

I walked into church and dipped my fingers into the 
holy water and splashed some on my face as 1 went 
into the main body of the church to kneel and thank 
The Powers That Be for my chance encounter with 
the nice couple from Boston. 

Have a nice day! A Gay Day! Joy is where you find 


He was about 55 years old. 1 am 49. 


P.S.: This is not the first time I have enjoyed 
contacts of this nature on public transportation. May¬ 
be others might write in to share their experiences 
with the good readers of the B.A.R. 


ANOTHER WAY. . . 

★ 1 have just joined a mostly Gay international mysti¬ 
cal/sexual/spiritual network called The Loving 
Brotherhood. Its possibilities seem exciting. Anyone 
wishing information about the group may send a 
legal-sized self-addressed stamped envelope to The 
Loving Brotherhood, Box 556, Sussex, N.J. 07461. 

Strange de Jim 
San Francisco 


SAN JOSE PROFITS 

★ 1 just wanted to take time and thank a member of 
the San Francisco community for supporting us this 
past year and help make our Gay Christmas 79 Pro¬ 
gram a success. 

As I’m sure most readers are aware, a major Gay 
rights struggle is being waged in Santa Clara County 
and San Jose. A great deal of time and money are 
being expended to maintain our Sexual Orientation 
Ordinances. With that in mind, we expect many of 
our other ongoing projects might suffer some loss of 
.revenue and attention. 

However, this year our annual Christmas Ball 
netted a record $848.00 profit due to the efforts of six 
organizations working together here in the Valley. 
And, very importantly, because one of your Empress 
candidates, Connie, took the time to travel and per¬ 
form in our fundraising efforts. 

My deepest appreciation to Connie and an open 
invitation to perform again in a very grateful sister 
city. 

Dan Relic 
Project Director 
San Jose Gay Christmas ’79 


10 FOR 10 REBUTTAL 

★ The following letter was sent to area businesses not 
participating in the 10 for 10 Program to raise monies 
for the Santa Clara Valley Coalition for Human 
Rights. 

Since you are printing letters and articles regarding 
the “tactics” of people involved in the program, we 
thought you might want to print our feelings. We real¬ 
ize there are those who are feeling pressured, but we 
want these bar owners to know how we feel about this 
program — including not patronizing their establish¬ 
ments. We not only have a right to protest their 
actions, we have an obligation. 

Dear 

As you are aware, we as the Gay community face the 
sexual preference ordinances which will be on the ballot in 
June 1980. 

Most of the bars and businesses in town have joined the 10 
for 10 Program, which means 10% of their gross profits will 
help to protect the rights of 10% of the population. 

You might not be aware of the fact that there is indeed 
discrimination against us, making passage of the ordinances 
of extreme importance. 

People not only from California, but from all over the 
U S.A. are trying to help us in one way or another. 

We wish to inform you that the Board of Directors of Case 
de San Jose of Santa Clara County, Inc. do in fact support 
the 10 for 10 Program and strongly urge you to join the 
program as soon as possible. We do understand that this will 
mean a raise in drink and/or admission prices, but we are 
willing to pay them. 

If, for whatever reason, you do not join the program soon, 
we will have no other choice but to go to the bars and busi¬ 
nesses that support us. 


Billy DeFrank 
President 


A1 Jewell 
Board Member 


Alex Mendizabel 
Emperor III 


Dan Relic 
Scty/Treasurer 


Goldie Montana 
Membership Director 


Dorene Tinney 
Board Member 


Tanya Luna 
Empress XII 


INS - LOCAL BRASS SHOULD GO 

Is the Immigration Service’s attack on Gays a result 
of archair immigration laws? Or is it a well devised 
scheme of local anti-Gay immigration officials to show 
their power in defiance of recent Gay legal victories? 
In the last six months, immigration officials in San 
Francisco hat/e attempted to bar the entry into the 
U.S. of four Gay tourists. This harassment by INS is 
occurring only in San Francisco. (ED. NOTE: incidents 
elsewhere have been reported) Monica Bell, Deputy Dis¬ 
trict Director of Immigration, initiated the witch hunt 
on Gays when she had Carl Hill detained on June 13, 
1979, for wearing a “Gay Pride” button. District 
Director David Ilchert was out of town at the time. On 
August 2, 1979, when the U.S. Public Health Serv¬ 
ice announced that Gays would not be classified as 
“sexual deviates" or “psychopathic personalities,” the 
INS was stripped of any legal guise for stopping Gays. 
Yet on August 3, Ilchert and Bell were nearly suc¬ 
cessful in deporting two Gay Mexicans, Javier Cruz 
and Eduardo Roman. In December, when the De¬ 
partment of Justice announced that INS had to en¬ 
force the barring of Gays from the U.S., Ilchert and 
Bell immediately sprung into action: a Gay Mexican, 
Jaime Chavez, was detained, nearly deported, and 
held incommunicado for nearly twenty-four hours 
until Donald Knutson of GRA contacted Chavez. 

Is it a coincidence that Hill was detained eleven 
days before the Gay Freedom Day Parade? Or was it 
Ilchert and Bell’s attempt to intimidate Gay tourists 
from attending the parade? Ilchert and Bell clearly 
defied Public Health Service when they had Cruz and 
Roman detained. The Washington office of INS did 
not sanction the arrest of Chavez. Bell and Ilchert 
acted in defiance of the protests of Governor Brown, 
Mayor Feinstein, Supervisors Britt and Kopp. Yet, 
since Bell and Ilchert are neither elected nor 
appointed officials, they think they can illegally vent 
their anti-Gay hatred without impunity. 

If the Gay community is to achieve a victory over 
immigration, Bell and Ilchert must be ousted from 
public office. Every member of the Gay community is 
urged to write President Carter and the Commission¬ 
er of Immigration to demand the resignation of 
Monica Bell and David Ilchert. 

Bobby Lester 
San Francisco 


BAY AREA REPORTER JANUARY 31, 1980 PAGE 6 















Letters*** 

★ ★ ★ * * 

DEFENDING SAN JOSE’S “10 FOR 10” 

★ I wish to express my strong disapproval of the two 
articles printed about the “10 for 10” program in 
Santa Clara County. 1 wonder why it was necessary 
for you to print two articles that said essentially the 
same thing? Both articles were unsigned so there 
should not have been any editorializing done in them. 
The person or persons writing these articles stated 
that some bar owners objected to the strong-arm 
tactics used to try to force them to participate in the 
program. What’s missing from that statement is the 
following information. What bar owners? What 
specifically is meant by “strong-arm tactics”? What 
person connected with the “10 for 10” program used 
these strong-arm tactics? I would like to see some 
facts printed, not innuendos. 

B.A.R. is to be commended for the coverage it has 
given to San Jose and the South Bay area. You are 
the only Gay newspaper in San Francisco that makes 
any attempt to cover this area on a regular basis. 1 do 
hope that in future articles B A R. will use some 
editorial judgement when screening articles for publi¬ 
cation. One article with some facts would have been 
sufficient. 

To reply to the two articles and Ms. Rustay’s lettr 
which was in the same issue, 1 would have to guess, 
that they are referring to the call for a boycott of the 
bars that do not support “10 for 10.” Sorry, but that’s 
not strong-arm tactics. It’s called supporting those that 
support you. That has been my belief all my life. I 
have refused to patronize bars that have discriminated 
against women, minority groups and drags. 1 will not 
go to Nevada until that state ratifies the ERA and 
removes the anti-Gay bills recently put into law. 

The opposition to Gay rights in Santa Clara County 
plans to spend over a quarter of a million dollars to 
take our rights away (they won in Miami and spent 
considerably less). Yet we have people crying over a 
10% surcharge on drinks. Claiming that they should 
be able to give voluntarily to “political causes.” So Ms. 
Rustay has reduced this battle to a political cause. She 
better get herself educated. If these fundamentalists 
win here it will be disastrous for the Gay rights 
movement. 

One need not go back very far to remember the 
times when Gay bars were raided and the patrons 
arrested for doing nothing more than being in a Gay 
bar. I remember when most Gay bars were owned by 
organized crime, payoffs were the rule to stay in busi¬ 
ness, and most were located in the worst parts of 
town. Asking patrons to help finance this battle with a 
10% surcharge is a small price to pay for our 
freedom. 

In closing I would reply to the questions Ms. Rustay 
asked about the Coalition, by telling her that the Co¬ 
alition has been meeting weekly for the past three 
months and has had a phone for at least two months. 
All of her questions would have gladly been answered 
had she taken the time to attend a meeting or picked 
up the phone. 

David Treadwell 
San Jose 

(ED. NOTE: The "10 for 10” material was written and 
submitted by Gene Earl. The first received was highly 
personal and should have been by-lined. We asked for a 
second as a way of explanation of what the "10 for 10” 
program was all about. We agree it was not the best of 
coverage . . . P. Lorch) 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

CRIME IS INEVITABLE 

★ In his January 17 article on police recruitment of 
Gays, Allen White seems to be arguing that a police 
state will advance the cause of Gay liberation. 

The “serious crime problem in San Francisco,” 
White asserts, “can only be remedied by literally 
hundreds of additional police officers being added to 
the force.” White argues that San Franciscans “should 
feel a responsibility to support a strong and full-staffed 
police department.” 

For years, sociologists have searched for a link be¬ 
tween the number of police and the amount of crime. 
They have found no connection — beefing up police 
forces does not deter crime. 

Crime is inevitable in a city such as San Francisco. 
The city’s housing crunch is frustrating everyone here 
(with the exception of landlords who profit from it), 
and joblessness, inflation and the like also add to eco¬ 
nomic tension. 

The assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey 
Milk by ex-police officer Dan White destroyed the be¬ 
ginning of a move toward uniting the Gay and non¬ 
white communities. As a result, we are all venting our 
frustrations on each other. 

Historically, the police have not been our friends — 
White seems to be forgetting that police have been the 
most visible source of Gay oppression over the past 
few decades. 

A beefed-up police force will free more officers for 
vice squad duty — the harassment, in part, of Gays. 
More officers will be available to patrol the ghettos 
and barrios, shooting and killing “undesirables” as the 
Oakland police — who have killed nine blacks in the 
past 13 months — are currently doing. 




But it will not stop crime. Crime will only decrease 
when jobs are available; when medical, housing and 
educational needs are met, and when we as San 
Franciscans link arms and attempt to forge a more 
humanistic society. Beefing up the police force will, if 
anything, slow that process. 


Karen Franklin 
San Francisco 

(ED. NOTE: If the attitudes of the oppressed can be 
changed, why can’t the attitude of the oppressors also be 
changed?) 


★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

NAKED FAN 

★ Kindly consider my most unusual recent nude ad¬ 
venture story for the B A R. 

1 feel certain the readers will all want to jump on a 
plane after reading it and head for Hawaii. It was in¬ 
deed a news media event there I'll long remember. 
Please feel free to use the photos and article in a 
forthcoming issue. I love your paper. 

Charles Finley 
San Francisco 


(ED. NOTE: We promise — next issue.) 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

AUTHOR’S CLARIFICATION 

★ My thanks to Frank Howell for taking the time to 
review my new book, “Living Gay." I thought I ought 
to correct one inaccuracy however. I am Gay and I 
am a clinical psychologist and I am the same Gay clin¬ 
ical psychologist who pioneered in developing week¬ 
end groups for Gay people in 1968. I led weekend 
groups for ten years but don’t do them anymore. 

I am afraid that Mr. Howell has me confused with 
one of the current varieties of Gay weekend experi¬ 
ences when he talks about “weekend encounters for 
Gay couples at the God-awful fee of $200.00 per 
person, not per couple." My groups were not offered 
to couples and not at that price. 

Don Clark, Ph.D. 
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

CATCHING GEORGE BUSH 

(1) My roommate and I sloshed happily through a 
Niagara-style rainfall for our rights. While I was 
ashamed of the stay-at-home brothers and sisters, I 
sure was proud of our Band. I hope their detractors 
will now shut up! 

(2) In the L.A. Times of January 24 (pp. 30-31) 
Robert Scheer elicited in his interview of “G.O.P 
liberal” Bush the following bullshit: 

“I don’t think we need a codification, kind of 
putting a stamp of approval on that lifestyle. That’s 
not what our society should be asked to do.” 

He added: 

“I don’t think American society should be asked to 
accept that homosexuality is a standard which should 
be held up for acceptance.” 

So much for the liberal wing of the Republican 
Party! 


Paul Cameron 
Berkeley 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

POOR WORDS 


★ Outrageous! 

In his article on “American Indian Juicer” Donnie 
Brown (B.A.R ., Jan. 17), your reporter ranted and 
raved in a most inappropriate way. 

One would think that a Gay person — stereotyped 
and looked down upon by an intolerant homophobic 
society — would have more sensitivity for other 
oppressed people than to contribute to their oppres¬ 
sion with such slander as “a drunk-happy Indian loose 
on the streets ...” 

Do you really think Donnie Brown’s arrest and sub¬ 
sequent legal hassles should be ridiculed in this 
manner? 

Have you no more humanism than to tromp on an 
American Indian while arguing that Gays should not 
be put down? 

Is it not hypocritical for a primarily-white, male Gay 
newspaper to fight for Gay acceptance while pushing 
non-white people further down the rungs of the 
American ladder? 


Yvonne Crowley 

(ED. NOTE: We believe the author’s intent was other¬ 
wise; yet should his subtleties be missed — our apologies.) 

it ★ ★ ★ ★ 



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difficult to finance private housing, and the number of new 
housing units built each year was far below that what it 
should have been. Since there is a steady growth in popula¬ 
tion, this puts pressure on our housing reserves and prices 
rise. 


Second, there have been inflationary increases in the labor 
and materials costs that go into building a house. In most 
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Historically, real estate values have always increased faster 
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Viewpoint 

(Continued from page 6) 


Locals Have Questions 


The exercise and enjoyment of rights are meaningless 
when the loss, violation, or mutilation of life have be¬ 
come the commonplace. 

CUAV figures that for every attack reported, eight 
more go unreported. Too many Gays — sadly — have 
come to accept violence against them as part of Gay life. 
Too many shrug it off as one of the perils of urban life — 
to be endured silently. 

A more aggressive CUAV might well be a beginning. 

P. Lorch 



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Outing Group Returns 

Great Outdoors, a Southern California-based camping operation, has returned to the Bay Area 
seeking support and members. This time it was not met with open arms. 


In recent weeks flyers and application forms have been distributed in Gay areas of the city and a 
representative of the now-labeled “non-profit club” has been meeting with Gay outdoor enthusiasts 
and with the local press. The response has been guarded, if not skeptical. 



Over two years ago repre¬ 
sentatives of the same Great 
Outdoors arrived in San Fran¬ 
cisco amid much fanfare and 
publicity. Headed up by press 
agent Marty McCombs, a base 
of operations was set up in the 
Castro, a major press confer¬ 
ence was held at 330 Grove St. 
(the then Gay Community 
Center) and large-size ads were 
taken out in the local Gay pub¬ 
lications. Memberships were 
sold at $50. and a sizable 
schedule of trips, camping, 
hikes, and outings were 
planned. The community here 
was told that the operation had 
been a great success in South¬ 
ern California and the time had 
come to include the northern 
brothers and sisters in the 
program. 


The Gay media was solicited 
to provide support and pub¬ 
licity. The newspapers (the 
B.A.R. and Sentinel included) 
ran feature stories and press re¬ 
leases to boost the outreach. 


Suddenly the operation 
ceased: phones were discon¬ 
nected. outings canceled, the 
San Francisco apartment 
vacated, and a trail of unpaid 
bills and disappointed members 
was left behind. No money was 
refunded. In response to 
numerous complaints, the 
B.A.R. tried to track down the 
promoters, but every lead 
resulted in a dead end. Nobody 
could be reached; no explana¬ 
tion could be elicited. 

Last week Greg Carmack ar¬ 
rived in San Francisco and 
made the rounds of the local 
press. Carmack maintained he 
was one of the original found¬ 
ers of Great Outdoors but not 
responsible for the subsequent 
rip-off. He said, “We are a 
non-profit Gay outdoors club 
started at UCLA in 1978. We 
are not the Great Outdoors 
people who folded after trying 
to turn it into a business. This is 
our first year going statewide.” 

This time a yearly member¬ 
ship is $15 ($10 for students) 
and the individual outing fee is 
$5 each. All subsequent costs, 
i.e. transportation, food, fees, 
will be paid by the participants. 


Ariae Levy as Santa promoting “Great Outdoor Adventures ’’ this past 
Christmas on Castro Street. His group is in no way connected with the recent 
re-arrival of “Great Outdoors ." (Photo by Rink) 


After the first experience a 
local group of outdoor enthusi¬ 
asts formed in San Francisco. It 
was labeled Great Outdoor Ad¬ 
ventures under the direction of 
Aryae Levy. Some of the 
group were those who had 
been burned by Great Out¬ 
doors. Levy, when contacted 
by the B.A.R., said he wel¬ 
comed the idea of the new 
group but was taking a wait- 
and-see attitude on the actual 
operation. 

A spokesperson for the 
Golden Gate Business Associ¬ 
ation told B.A.R. that their 
group had a sizable complaint 
file on the original Great Out¬ 
doors. A further check re¬ 
vealed that Great Outdoors 
had other outstanding debts in 
both northern and southern 
California. The B.A.R. was not 
able, at press time, to pin down 


what specific financial backing 
or actual resources were avail¬ 
able to the revived group. 

Carmack also told B.A.R. 
that Great Outdoors had repre¬ 
sentatives in other northern 
California locations, including 
Sacramento. 

A get together meeting has 
been set for February 27 at the 
MCC Church at 150 Eureka 
St. at 7:00PM. Carmack said a 
collection would be taken up as 
a donation to MCC for the use 
of their facilities. 

Carmack also said to 
B.A.R., “We are a progressive 
feminist club that turns no one 
away due to financial situ¬ 
ation.” This statement along 
with many other questions re¬ 
mains to be explained. 


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The new (or new/old) group 
plan a Great Outdoors maga¬ 
zine. Carmack said they are 
planning for a 5,000 press run 
and the first issue is promised in 
return for taking out a 1980 
membership. A season sub¬ 
scription to the magazine is an 
additional $5. 

Carmack admitted that while 
the club is “non-profit” he will 
be drawing a salary of $100 per 
week and trail chief Jeff 
Norman will be salaried at $50 
per trip. Carmack said he felt 
bad about Great Outdoors’ bad 
debts but could not be respon¬ 
sible for them. Those who 
joined the first time round and 
received no refund will be 
accepted as members free. 

The statewide headquarters 
is a post office box in Riverside, 
California. Carmack said his 
group would be seeking 
business sponsors and boosters 
for both the club and the news¬ 
letter/ magazine from San 
Francisco and other California 
cities! 


Boy in America! 


According to a press release, 
Robert Patrick, author of KEN¬ 
NEDY’S CHILDREN, is look¬ 
ing for the most beautiful boy in 
America to audition for the role 
of “Tom” in the forthcoming 
New York production of his 
nation-wide hit T-SHIRTS. 

Called by The SoHo Weekly 
News “one of the funniest plays 
you’ll ever see,” T-SHIRTS 
was an unqualified smash 
when presented last summer in 
New York as a showcase pro¬ 
duction. 

“Tom should appear 19,” 
says playwright Patrick, “and 
be both radiantly beautiful and 
exceptionally intelligent. He 
must be well-built — there is 
some nudity — and have a wry 


sense of humor that cloaks a 
very real vulnerability.” 

The new production will be 
directed by Mr. Patrick and 
produced by Lawrence Lane 
for The Glines, New York’s 
non-profit organization for Gay 
arts. Pictures and resumes 
should be sent to Lawrence 
Lane, 28 Willow Street, Brook¬ 
lyn, N.Y. 11201. 

The text of T-SHIRTS is 
published in “Gay Plays: A 
First Collection,” ed. Wm. M. 
Hoffman, Avon/Bard Books 
(paperback). 

The Glines is funded, in part, 
by a grant from the New York 
State Council on the Arts. 


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Florida Millionaire 
Murderer Convicted 

TOM NORMAN PROSECUTES 
6 GAYS ON JURY 


BY Hav Gefter 


Two men who lived 
“straight” lives on opposite 
coasts of the U.S.A., one a 
millionaire from Florida, the 
other a legally blind black 
Orpheus from Compton, 
converged on San Francisco, 
where the millionaire, 77 and 
white, came out of his Florida 
closet to indulge his taste for 
nude black men. went to the 
Trapp Bar on Eddy Street for a 
pickup, and met a brutal death 
at the hands of Wayne Reed 
Golden. 

Golden was caught taking a 
dump in a vacant lot on Cali¬ 
fornia Street in the early hours 
of September 28, 1979. Some¬ 
one had reported a prowler 
and officers Stasco and Rogers 
responded. They made him 
climb back over a fence. In his 
possession was a green vinyl 
flight bag which had belonged 
to Mr. Howard Phillips, the 
millionaire from Florida. Blood 
was on Golden. In his pocket 
was a motel key to room 208 at 
Beck’s Motel, where the dead 
body of Howard Phillips had 
already been discovered. 


juror nabbed it just right: 
“What it boiled down to, one 
man killed another.” 

Defender Gaines made 
much of Golden’s blindness. 
Two eye specialists testified 


was Mr. Golden. Certainly we 
did not believe him. Very little 
of what he said did we 
believe.” 

Tom Norman had “a special 
circumstance” going for him in 
the case, to get First Degree 
Murder: the felony man¬ 

slaughter rule. In this, if it is 
found that a robbery was com¬ 
mitted in close association with 
the killing, it is automatically 
Murder-1. Wayne Golden was 
not only caught with the green 
flight bag, but the motel room 
was utterly stripped of any 
cash, so that the jury felt it had 
to be robbery. Yet they pre¬ 
ferred to consider the murder 


that he was their patient, and asdide from the bag, and they 
suffered lifetime-chronic struc- ^ 

tural damage to his eyes. He 
had holes in his eyes. Only 
quasimodo peripheral vision, 
and that in the shape of form¬ 
less forms. In court. Golden 
wore bandages over his eyes, 
dark glasses, carried a cane, 
was led in groping and out 
groping by the bailiff, and sat buzzed the court. They wanted 
throughout looking powerful in to hear the definitions of the 
his blue denim clothes and red 


did find a way to First Degree, 
without using robbery to do it. 

Friday morning at 10:06AM 
the jury finished receiving their 
instructions from Judge 
Thomas Dandurand and filed 
into the jury room to 
deliberate. Three times they 


However, the jury dismissed 
his blindness as an important 
factor in their deliberations, 
“One man viciously killed an¬ 
other,” remained the crucial 
fact. 


difference between First and 
Second Degree Murder. Once 
they wanted the felony man¬ 
slaughter rule read to them. 
The Judge read it, then when 
the jury had gone back to de¬ 
liberate, the Judge read the 
case to an observer: “They’re 
splitting hairs,” Dandurand 
said. He did not expect them to 
Of a curious nature, one be long. At 3:46PM they were 
thing that annoyed the jury yet back in court with their unani- 
they put it aside. This was a dis- mous verdict: “Wayne 

taste, or a dislike of Prosecutor Golden, Guilty of Murder in 
Norman’s courtroom. manner, the First Degree.” 

They could see and appreciate 

his laying the foundation for his The homosexual presence 
At Homicide detail. Golden case against Golden, and again on the jury was an intimate 
gave a taped statement to In- he did it as he did in the Dan addition seen and felt as a posi- 
spectors McCoy and Crowley. White case: a taped admis- tive and good-feeling contribu- 
They got an admission from sion, testimony of Dr. Boyd tion. Think Mr. Phillips was 
Golden that he had killed Mr. Stevens, Coroner for the City weird and far out? A few jury 


something for his pleasure. The 
price was his life. 

But they agreed up and 
down the line that Mr. Golden 
was convicted in spite of Mr. 
Norman. He did not make a 
favorable impression. If it 
hadn’t been for Norman, they 
would have arrived at the same 
verdict. They admitted his 
points of great effectiveness, 
one being the clearly tuned-in 
remark, “Wayne Golden lies 
rather glibly.” 

Yet, said one, “What is it 
about Tom Norman? When I 
saw him after the Dan White 
case, it was curious, I thought 
he was the most boring man I 
ever heard talk. However, in 
the courtroom he certainly 
wasn’t. Interesting. I don’t 
know what it is about him — a 
Cheshire Cat, or something, so 
pleased with himself some¬ 
times.” 

Another added, “In his 
mind, what he did is greater 
than it really is. I don’t know, 
the way he would sneer and 
roll his eyes. It was theatrical, 
like he was used to clicking it 


Gay men did. The verdict had 
just been arrived at. and then 
the Dan White stuff came out. 
Again, it was not one of the 
essential elements of evidence 
to consider in the Golden case, 
yet it was there, piquing some 
of them, as Norman’s presence 
piques them, and had to be 
talked about. It never really 
was. It was only brought out a 
little, too late to have force. 
The verdict was reached. Yet 
as they filed out. it was out in 
the open again: some jury 
members, with memories of 
the Dan White verdict, admit¬ 
ted that in some subtle sublimi¬ 
nal way. their feelings of injus¬ 
tice at the Dan White case may 
have influenced them in arriv¬ 
ing at the total Wayne Golden 
verdict. 

But the jury system worked 
like hell this time. Mr. Nor¬ 
man’s style and personality did 
not make them want to support 
him. But in the weighing and 
the sifting of the jury room, 
only the evidence he layed out 
was important. 

Wayne Golden will appear 
before Judge Thomas Dan¬ 
durand of Dept. 24 for 
sentencing on February 15, 
1980, at 9AM in the Hall of 
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Phillips. 

For two-thirds of the state¬ 
ment, Golden lied and by the 
last third he had his story to¬ 
gether: his killing was done in 
a rage or outrage, from heat of 
disgusted passion and loathing. 


& County of San Francisco, as members were familiar with the 
to the wounds, photographs intricacies of his kinks. Gay 


with wounds of the deceased. 


knowledge 
information 
the facts behind the murder 


added useful 
to reconstructing 


“I hope Mr. Norman doesn’t 
think that our verdict was due 
to his wonderful presentation 
of the case,” one other juror 
said. This was just not the feel¬ 
ing of one person. I saw a lot 
of head-shaking. I think this, 
the jury reached its verdict in 
spite of Mr. Norman. A lot of 
the jurors seemed a little turned 
off by his style. They thought 
Mr. Golden was guilty, but 
didn’t think Norman’s style 
contributed to the verdict. 

Not many jurors recognized 
Tom Norman as the Dan White 
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There were jurors, say, who 
did not realize the nature of the 


Yet Norman’s presentation 
and theatricality disturbed the 
jury in a way they could not 

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when an old queer man went sons lay in Tom Norman's al- Trapp bar. If Howard Phillips 
beyond all, grabbed his testicles most reckless bitterness since desired to indulge his lust for 
in a tight grip. Golden was the Dan White verdict. He black men, why did he not go 
saying, pretending to be flung it in their faces: “The evi- to the Pendulum, that well- 
straight, that his outrage was so dence in this case cries out for known bar in the Castro? 
great, killing the dirty old homo Murder in the First Degree.” Knowledge of the strata of the 
was justified. And he proved to be right this Gay world was useful here. 

time. Ever think about getting old? 

In jury selection Public De- The taste is not generally for 

fender Michael Gaines seemed After the trial one juror said, old men. And the Castro men 
zealous; he used about sixteen “I hope neither side thinks the are not particularly for sale. But 
exemptions. By contrast. Pros- rhetoric was major. Neither the the Trapp bar men are there to 
ecutor Tom Norman didn t prosecutor did a brilliant job, hustle. That’s where Wayne 
nor the Defense blew it. If Golden went. That’s where Mr 
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didn’t excuse anyone. And 
what did he get? A very liberal 
jury with a large number of 
Gays. If ever any, a jury of 
peers. 

The People of California we 
well served. In terms of dice, 
the first twelve jurors were the 
first twelve people off the bus. 
But by the time the jury was 
sworn in, they were upgraded 
quite a bit. This jury thought it 
all out; they worked hard; they 
could say what they wanted. 
There was great intensity in the 
jury room. Lunchtime they 
were going to take an hour but 
they just gulped it. 

I had first guessed five Gay 
jurors. It’s fairly easy to recog¬ 
nize the Establishment. One 
juror said, “Five? If I had every 
one in front of me, I’d pick — 
six!” Yet the six were not talk¬ 
ing about being Gay. They 
were like the other six 
members, in that we all had 
liberal thinking regarding the 
whole matter. In our five or so 
hours of deliberation, I don’t 
think anyone gave me the feel¬ 
ing they were r ■ or not Gay 
or anti-Gay.” 

The homosexuality of 
Phillips or Golden was not im¬ 
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“Diversion” Becomes A New Resolution 



GGBA Holds 
Annual Meeting 

by George Heymont 

The annual meeting of the 
Golden Gate Business Associ¬ 
ation brought almost 400 
people to the Irish Cultural 
Center for a gala dinner. Em¬ 
cee Robin Tyler stressed her 
hopes to establish a Gay cultur¬ 
al festival every year in San 
Francisco, suggesting that it be 
coincident with Eleanor Roose¬ 
velt’s birthday on October 11. 
Tyler also spoke of the need for 
recognition of Gay and Lesbian 
artists. She outlined the growth 
of nightclub and coffee-house 
networks where these artists 
now perform. Tyler led a 
hearty ovation for the wood¬ 
wind quartet which provided 
music for the evening. 
QUATTRO’s performance was 
a refreshing change of pace. 

President Arthur Lazere’s 
keynote speech was far more 


political than one would have 
expected in the formative days 
of GGBA. The Gay business 
community has learned how to 
flex its well-oiled and well- 
financed muscles. GGBA’s 


boycott of World Airways and 
its efforts to re-educate the 
Chamber of Commerce are the 
initial steps of a powerful and 
potent force in the Bay Area’s 
business community. Through¬ 
out the course of the evening, 
the growth in the political and 
economic clout of the Gay 
community was apparent. In 
addition to the Mayor (who 
was the guest speaker), the 
Chief of Police, half the Board 
of Supervisors (including Harry 
Britt, Carol Ruth Silver, and 
Quentin Kopp), and local and 

Britt, Carol Ruth Silver, Quen¬ 
tin Kopp and John Molinari), 
and local and state politicians 
(including Assemblyman Art 
Agnos and Senator Milton 
Marks) were present. All were 
acutely aware of the impor¬ 
tance of making a showing — 
not only for their own constitu¬ 
ents, but for the sake of their 
political careers. 

Feinstein’s speech stressed 
the need for all factions of the 
city to work together as a team, 
underlining the feeling that 
there is room for everyone. 
She was cheered when she an¬ 
nounced her plans to confer 
with the White House wfiile in 
Washington about discrimina¬ 
tory practices against Gays 
recently undertaken by the 
INS. 

It is hard to believe that only 
ten years ago these politicians 
would have scoffed at attend¬ 
ing such a dinner. Half the 
Gays in the hall would not have 
been seen talking to each other 
in the same room with the 
lights on ten years ago. This 
year’s GGBA dinner was every 
bit as legitimatized as an Elks 
convention or a conference of 
shoe salesmen. It is a cogent 
indication of the way Gays 
have penetrated mainstream 
America. A special award was 
given to Gay Rights Advo¬ 
cates, the law firm which has 
worked hard to fight discrimi¬ 
nation against Gays. Attorney 
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Where the May 21 
Cases Stand 

by Hav Gefter 


After District Attorney Arlo 
Smith took over on January 6, 
there was a sudden movement 
in some of the May 21-22 riot 
cases which had gone on from 
one delay and postponement 
to another. The first signs are 
refreshing and commendable: 
The “bullshit” cases are going 
to be disposed of without fan¬ 
fare. 

It is the mildest of compro¬ 
mises: it takes an offer from 
the Judge, with the D.A.’s con¬ 
sent, of “Diversion.” If accept¬ 
ed it is not technically an ad¬ 
mission of guilt, yet it carries an 
agreement that the Defendant 
will “donate” about 25 hours of 
community service work. If this 
is acceptable to the person ar¬ 
rested as a final settlement, 
then that’s the end of it for 
them. 

Last week defense attorney 
Thomas Steel accepted this set¬ 
tlement for his client, Joseph 
Gault, who was charged the 
night of the riot with attempting 
to break an aerial on a police 
car. It’s a “bullshit” case be¬ 
cause if it ever came to trial the 
defense was going to be that if 
he’d wanted to break the thing, 
he would have; and that it 
would be finally impossible to 
prove in court that he intended 
to break it. So why bullshit 
around? Settle now, and avoid 
paying later. So exit Joseph 
Gault, who is said to be a 
“political” man. His case has 
been referred to the “Diver¬ 
sion” Dept., for assigning of 
community service. 

The same offer is being con¬ 
sidered for two other defend¬ 
ants, Ruby Brown and Sydney 
Dygert. They were arrested at a 
Wells Fargo Bank on Market 
Street and charged with the 
malicious mischief of breaking 
the window. But it’s a “bullshit” 
case because it’s based, again, 
on something that would be 
impossible to prove if it came to 
court, because nobody saw 
them do it. A security guard 
was there, and he heard the 
large pane shatter, turned 
around — and there were 
Brown and Dygert, standing 
by, watching. However, Dy- 
gert’s case is being viewed dif¬ 
ferently by herself. She believes 
passionately that she is inno¬ 
cent and doesn’t even want to 
accept the mild compromise of 
having to do community work 
as “Diversion.” So her attor¬ 
ney, Marilyn Hedges, may 
have to take it to trial. That, she 
has pointed out to Dygert, has 
the risk of being heard by a 
jury, and being, after all, con¬ 
victed. If she agrees to “Diver¬ 
sion,” however, it’s the easiest 


way and she’s free. 

Are Ruby Brown and Syd¬ 
ney Dygert Lesbians? Are they 
political at all? The night of the 
riot, were they where they 
were for any passionate 
reasons? That is another mark 
of “the bullshit cases”: the de¬ 
fendants will have nothing to 
say for themselves. If Sydney 
Dygert does come to trial, she 
may turn political in her way. 

As for Ruby Brown, her ter¬ 
rible crime on the night was 
that she “did loiter, and wander 
upon the street from place to 
place without apparent 
reason.” She, too, may go the 
“Diversion” route. 

A new judge has entered the 
May 21-22 riot cases — Judge 
Olcemendy taking over at 
Dept. 10 for Judge Lucy 
McCabe. He is the one who is, 
in effect, disposing of the “bull¬ 
shit” cases with Diversion. For 
those who accept it in good 
faith, it seems an excellent and 
less harsh solution. 

The question now remains, 
how many of the riot cases are 
of the “bullshit” variety? The 
cooperation of the D.A.’s office 
in this new solution to the stale¬ 
mate that was growing even 
staler is the first sign of Arlo 
Smith’s guiding hand. 

The proof of the pudding is 
going to be, is the May 21-22 
defendant going to protest it at 
trial, or settle it on some the the 
District Attorney’s terms? If it’s 
going to be a settlement, 
“Diversion” is an attractive bait, 
which is well-designed to at¬ 
tract all kinds of sucker fish who 
started out boasting of their in¬ 
dependence and politics, but 
now don’t want to pay the price 
of being passionately political. 
It’s the old story, too: “I will 
follow you right to the barriers, 
comrades. And then I will turn 
tail and run like hell.” 

This refreshing tactic of D.A. 
Arlo Smith is a good sign and 
will flush out the “bullshit” 
cases. Perhaps in the end, be¬ 
fore any of them come to trial, 
they will all turn out to be bull¬ 
shit cases. 

Previously, in what seems 
now like the Golden Age of the 
May 21-22 defendants when 
they were before Judge Doro¬ 
thy von Beroldingen, there was 
actually one case, that of 
plucky Richard McFarland, that 
was ordered “Discharged” by 
Judge von Beroldingen on 
June 12, 1979, a swift three 
weeks from the riot day of 
arrest. This was a two-pronqed 



Union Square Alert 

SFPD’S Vice Squad is hard at work in Union Square 
Garage public rest rooms. 

In the past several weeks scores have been arrested 
after being spied on by police hiding in the rest room’s 
broom closet. The “vice” have observed all comers 
through a peephole in the door. 

All cases brought into court thus far have been dis¬ 
missed because entrapment is now against the law. Men 
who have not been engaged in sex with anyone have 
been arrested for “masturbating” in public. Even more 
twisted scenarios have been reported. 

Regardless of the court dismissals, the peep show goes 
on. According to attorney Fred Rosenberg who handled 
some of the cases — if one’s case comes to court, do not 
take the “diversion” program as a way out. Instead, in¬ 
sist charges be dismissed. 


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case, in that McFarland was 
charged by two different codes 
with the same offense: De¬ 
fendant Richard McFarland did 
then and there have in his 
possession a slingshot by which 
missiles may be projected by 
force of air. 

This was an early “bullshit” 
case of its time, for the follow¬ 
ing reasons which his attorney, 
Laurence Lichter, explained. 
The Municipal Code ordinance 
on which it is based, a Misde¬ 
meanor, is on the books only of 
two counties in California, and 
one of then\is San Francisco. 
McFarland (like “burglary” de¬ 
fendant Richard L. Miller) is 
not from San Francisco, but 
was visiting from a county 
where the sling is not forbid¬ 
den. Attorney Lichter believed 
that the D.A. charged McFar¬ 
land with the same crime as a 
felony out of pure meanness. 
Lichter had two simple but 
effective legal maneuvers 
which got through to the judge 
of Dept. 10, who was Judge 
Olmendy’s predecessor, Judge 
McCabe. First he made a Mo¬ 
tion that ,the ordinance was il¬ 
legal, since in the rest of the 
state of California it was no 
longer treated as a felony. 
Then his clincher came one 
day as he walked along Market 
Street, no doubt reminiscing of 
that riot night, and passed a 
sporting goods store where he 
found slingshots for sale. He 
went right back to court and 
said he was going to file a Mo¬ 
tion that the law would be dis¬ 
criminatory. And Judge 
McCabe “threw it out in the 
best interests of Justice.” 

Now that’s a way for a judge 
to behave. So Dept. 10 has a 
good cheerful record, dispos¬ 
ing of “bullshit” cases. 

Yet it has not all been gentle, 
and it may not be yet. Take the 
case of David C. Webb, who 
was pursued by off-duty police 
officer Larry Pedrodalasol. 
That resulted, quietly and with¬ 
out fanfare on November 16, 
1979, in an appearance for 
sentencing. Webb was found 
Not Guilty of battery on a 
police officer. He was found 
Guilty of Reckless Driving and 
Resisting. For the driving he re¬ 
ceived thirty days in the county 
jail, suspended sentence with 
two years probation, plus a fine 
of $250. For resisting, he was 
given a thrity-day suspended 
sentence with two years proba¬ 
tion, plus a $100 fine, and he 
was given until December 31, 
1979, to pay the fines. Yet in 
the thick and juicy docket 
which is Webb’s his Declaration 
declares: “That he acted in 
self-defense. That he was 
severely beaten. Suffered a 
skull fracture. Suffered facial 
fracture. Surgery was per¬ 
formed on him at S.F. General 
Hospital. There was a trial. It 
went on quietly and finished 
without notice in the press. 

Next we have a group of 
cases which might be called the 
“chickenshit” cases. In this 
group, the D.A.’s office has 
offered the brutal alternative of 
return to prison on grounds of 
violation of parole. Probation is 
revoked, back to jail they go. 
Among this group, so far, 
which has been exercised by 
District Attorneys Lassart and 
Koelling, are Leonard Golson 
and Tyrone Cooper, both ar¬ 
rested for burglary. We see re¬ 
cently that Alton Singleton, 
who was arrested with Tyrone 
Cooper, is traveling the same 
road of probation revocation. 
Only the recurring illness of 
Judge Calcagno has post¬ 
poned a final decision on him. 

All defendants who have 
previous records and who were 
on probation at the time of the 
May 21-22 riots may rest 
assured that the District Attor¬ 
ney has checked into it already. 


If it can be done, the District 
Attorney’s office will move to 
revoke the probation and re¬ 
turn the defendant to jail to 
serve out his original term. The 
device is known as “Discharged 
on grounds of 871 of the Penal 
Code.” 

This way out has even been 
taken in the case of Lee R. 
Robinson. Here the offense 
was more serious: the charge 
was assault with the deadly 
weapon of that riot night — 
cement — in four felony counts 
on two S.F. police officers, 
James McKeever and Lt. Hess. 
Yet a way was found, on a mo¬ 
tion by James Lassart, to dis¬ 
charge the matter on 871PC: 
Robinson pleaded Guilty to the 
two counts of firearm allega¬ 
tion, and the far more serious 
assault charges were 
“Discharged.” 

In case it ever happens to 
you, remember what “Dis¬ 
charged” means: you can be 
re-arrested, and you probably 
will be if you don’t behave 
yourself in the future. 

Robinson was sentenced by 
the court: “To be imprisoned 
in the county jail 155 days, 
suspended sentence on two 
years probation. As a condition 
of probation the court orders 
the defendant to be imprisoned 
in the county jail for the period 
of 2 days.” 

Will this 871PC probation 
revocation way of disposal also 
overcome May 21-22 
defendant Paul Stephens? If 
Stephens is or was on proba¬ 
tion, this will overtake him 
when v he comes to trial or pre¬ 
liminary hearing. Stephens is 
charged with the hurling of 
cement fragments at riot squad 
police at Castro & 18th Streets. 

If Stephens is not on proba¬ 
tion, he may be eventually of¬ 
fered the new potion of “Diver¬ 
sion” as a means of settling his 
case. I believe he would grab it, 
even though he is certainly one 
of the “political” cases, as they 
used to be called. Now 
Stephens, despite his deep 
feelings over the Justice sys¬ 
tem, would accept Diversion. If 
it came to trial for him, how¬ 
ever, that is unpredictable. 
Stephens is a passionate and 
emotional man, and the poli¬ 
tics might just flow from him. 

The same can be said of 
other May 21-22 defendants, 
although for a frustrating length 
of time they have munched on 
their political gums. Spinstar 
Kenneth Lundgreen and Peter 
Plate are in this group. Spin- 
star’s case reminds us of David 
Webb. Here he is charged with 
the felony of assaulting two 
police officers, David Fontana 
and Sgt. Charles Warren,, yet 
Spinstar wound up in the 
hospital with a skull fracture 
and numerous wounds about 
the skull and back. I have seen 
color photographs which make 
it far easier to charge him with 
being beaten than with assault. 
So if the chance comes to settle 
this by “Diversion,” perhaps 
offered as Arlo Smith’s apt 
resolution into a little commu¬ 
nity service, I believe the politi¬ 
cal Lundgreen will remain 
underground and accept the 
service. 

Peter Plate is another matter. 
He is perhaps the wildest of the 
defendants. I do not mean by 
nature or by habit, for in his 
case it is evident that the night 
of May 21-22 was exceptional 
in the form his political inspira¬ 
tion took, which was to go on a 
rampage. He is charged with 
using “force and violence” 
upon the persomof Officer Rod 
Lewin, smashing windows at 
.City Hall, torching police cars 


Plate may play the role of 
The Silver Swan in this May 
21-22 defendants’ story. If his 
case ever comes to trial, Peter 
may unlock his, silent throat. 
Yet he doesn’t want/to spend 
time in jail, if he can avoid it. 
He might be also a good candi¬ 
date for Arlo Smith to offer 
“Diversion.” 

It takes heroes to be political. 
All the rest may be susceptible 
to the “bullshit case” way out. 
What makes the riot cases so 
frustrating all these months is 
that the real political motivation 
has been prudently absent, on 
advice of the attorneys for the 
Defense, who fear that 
anything they allow their clients 
to say may indeed be viciously 
used against them. So it’s best 
not to say anything. Why do 
we remember Patrick Henry? 
Because he was the one 
among many who looked 
around at his fellow demon¬ 
strators and then made the 
reply, “I know not what course 
others may take, but as for me, 
give me liberty or give me 
death.” 

I do admire Arlo Smith’s 
tempting “Diversion.” Next to 
amnesty, it seems like the swift¬ 
est way to flush out the politi¬ 
cos and dispose of the rest. 
That cuts right to the heart, if 
any, of the riot cases. 


Arcelona is another of the 
May 21-22 defendants who 
started out political, but found 
it more prudent to accept a way 
out from Arlo Smith’s new 
office. His attorney is Steve 
Teich, who a couple of months 
ago was serving his client Huey 
P. Newton. Not that everybody 
wants to be a hero. Maybe it 
will turn out that none of the 
May 21-22 defendants will 
come to trial. 

A few more are left. William 
Kirk “Billy” Budd, who was 
eighteen on the night of the 
riot, was charged with destroy¬ 
ing a police car. Budd is not 
likely to get out of this easily. At 
the same time as the riot arrest, 
he got convicted of another of¬ 
fense in San Mateo County 
which put him in jail in Red¬ 
wood City until the New Year 
1980. He was promptly re¬ 
arrested and held for the riot 
charges. 

/ 

Two names have escaped 
notice so far: Noah Miller and 
Daniel Stalinsky (or Statinski). 

Meanwhile, the whole 
menagerie of the rest of them 
will appear February 1, 1980, 
in Dept. 1 at City Hall, 3rd 
floor, Judge Williamson’s court 
room, to see where they stand. 
All cases have ground to a halt 
in the courts, thanks to the out¬ 
come of Judge Wonder’s 


November 29, 1979, ruling on 
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Marni Ryan in this regard, has 
received a stay against Judge 
Wonder’s denying them all the 
discovery they were seeking. 
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a long list of cases that are simi¬ 
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involvement of a beige Chev¬ 
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attack. The item carried a par¬ 
tial license number. Recently, a 
member of the community 
called CUAV stating the loca¬ 
tion of a car matching the de¬ 
scription, and provided the 
complete number. The car 
proved to be one not involved 
in the attack, and the call 
showed that you are helping to 
keep our community safe. 

If you believe you have in¬ 
formation about an attack, dial 
UNITED 1 and let us know! It is 
always a gamble, there are 
times when your piece of the 
puzzle does not fit. Please be 
assured that little bits of infor¬ 
mation often add up to an es¬ 
sential element of finding and 
arresting attackers. 

VICTIM STALKS 
ATTACKER 

A visitor to San Francisco 
was robbed at knife point of his 
watch and approximately on 
January 22. He dialed 
UNITED 1 and submitted a re¬ 
port. As a visitor, he asked ad¬ 
vice on “safe” places to social¬ 
ize. He accepted the advice 
and went out on Polk' Street 
with a companion. 

As they walked, the victim 
spun around, grabbed his 
companion, and said, “There 
he is!” While his companion 
went to summon police, the 
victim stalked the attacker in 
true “Dick Tracy” fashion. 
After 20 minutes of no re¬ 
sponse from police, and a 
complicated job of shadowing 
through shops and bars, the 
companion jumped in front of 
a squad car and explained the 
situation. He took the officers 
to his victim friend, and the 
attacker was arrested on the 
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In addition to “returning to 
the scene of the crime,” the at¬ 
tacker was found to be carrying 
the knife involved in the rob¬ 
bery. As the attacker was 
cuffed and led to the squad car, 
the victim shouted, “And that’s 
my watch he’s wearing!” The 
attacker wore the victim’s 
watch, which was engraved, 
thus guaranteeing 

thus guaranteeing identifica¬ 
tion. 

I’VE BEEN RAPED 
AND NEED HELP 

Rape is one of the most trau¬ 
matic experiences possible. We 
recognize the degree of suffer¬ 
ing and shock involved as 
every member of CUAV has 
“been there” as a victim of an 
anti-Gay attack. The following 
is a transcript of a call to CUAV 
received January 22 in the 
afternoon: 

Hello, my name is MIKE _, 

I’ve been raped and I need some 
help. Who do I get in touch with, 
or how do I find your address so I 
can go over and see you and visit 
for a checkup? (click) 

Mike, if you’re reading this, 
please give us another call, and 
leave your number! As you can 
see, there was nothing we 
could do to help the person as 
no information beyond a diffi¬ 
cult to understand name and 
the problem was provided. If 
you are attacked, do call, but 
summon up all the strength 
you have and provide some 
way for the people you call to 
get back to you! Be as clear as 
you can, give your name, 
where you are (it is listed on 
pay phones), and the number 
you are calling from and/or 
your home phone number. 
CUAV wants to give you what¬ 
ever help you need in an attack 


situation, but a call like the 
above helps no one. 

In order to prevent the ne¬ 
cessity for such a call, CUAV 
provided 12 points on how to 
prevent an attack, and those 
are published elsewhere in this 
paper. If you do need to call, 
report the attack to CUAV 
(UNITED 1) or Supervisor 
Britt’s office (558-2145), and 
the police (553-0123). Be sure 
to tell the police that the motive 
was anti-Gay. CUAV can help 
and advise you through prob¬ 
lems you might encounter filing 
a report. 

In the interest of continuing 
and improving our services, 
CUAV has sought support 
from businesses and commu¬ 
nity associations. We acknowl¬ 
edge a generous contribution 
from McCall’s Answering & 
Mail Service. 

I WISH SOMEONE WOULD 
DO SOMETHING ABOUT 
IT 

CUAV is doing something 
about anti-Gay attacks, and 
there is a lot more to do. In 
order to safeguard our commu¬ 
nity, whistles are sold, attack 
reports are collected and 
analyzed, CUAV provides 
MACE and Self Defense 
classes, and maintains contacts 
in agencies to help victims deal 
with all aspects of their attack. 

All of those services require 
the contributions of responsible 
people of high integrity. Accept 
the opportunity to gain satisfac¬ 
tion by making a difference! 
Apply for membership in 
CUAV. To receive an applica¬ 
tion, send your name and 
address to: J.A. Nicholas, 
CUAV Co-Chair, P.O. Box 
14803, San Francisco, CA 
94114; or call CUAV at 
864-8347. 


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Community United Against Violence 
SOME TIPS ON AVOIDING ASSAULTS 

1. Don’t walk alone. You reduce the odds of an assault by 
two-thirds if you have one friend with you. If you have two 
friends with you, you reduce the odds of an assault by 
ninety percent. Assaults on groups of four or more are very, 
very rare. Clearly, there is safety in numbers. 

2. Be especially careful between the hours of 8:00PM and 
2:00AM. Our review shows that this is when most anti-Gay 
and anti-Lesbian assaults occur. 

3. The probability of an assault is higher during the week 
than on weekends by 2 or 4 to one. 

4. Buy and carry a whistle. Use it if you’re threatened. 
The thuglets won’t like it, but it will get the attention of the 
neighbors. Neighbors coming out of doors, turning on lights, 
opening windows, etc., have stopped many assaults. The 
mere act of blowing a whistle has stopped many assaults. At 
the least, it will startle your assailants and give you a few 
seconds to react. 

5. Be wary of groups of 3 to 6 males in their teens or early 
twenties. Sixty percent of assailants were in groups of that 
size. 

6. Fifty-three percent of assailants that were identified by 
ethnic origin were Latinos. One-third of those so identified 
were Blacks. 

7. Eighty-five percent of assailants were on foot, either 
walking or loitering on the streets. 

8. Unless you’re a Bruce Lee, don’t be afraid to run. 
When you’re outnumbered 3 or 6 to one and your assailants 
have weapons, which they probably will, running is the 
smartest thing to do. Run into a business if there’s one near 
enough and open. Run toward lights and people. 

9. If you can’t run, resist. A Stanford University study has 
shown that 60% of assailants will leave you alone if you 
resist. Blow your whistle. Scream. Kick. Bite. RESIST! 

10. Join CUAV’s MACE and/or self-defense classes. Be¬ 
ing prepared isn’t only good for Boy and Girl Scouts, it’s 
smart. Call 864-8347. 

11. If you’re assaulted, report it. Call CUAV at “UNITED 
1.” If you’re threatened, you’ve been assaulted. You don’t 
have to be hurt or even touched for an assault to have taken 
place. Report it! 

12. Join CUAV and assist us assist others. Call 864-8347. 


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Why on earth should women 
go to war? What on earth do 
we have to defend? We live in 
a society that refuses to grant 
us inclusion in the Constitu¬ 
tion. a society that refuses to 
arrest the husbands who beat 
us. a society that refuses to 
prosecute rape, a society that 
puts the sanctity of the family 
above the protection of child¬ 
ren from incestuous assault, a 
society that denies sexually 
active women custody of their 
children, a society that denies 
us the ability to fully control our 
reproductive lives, although 
without such contrpl we will 
never earn as much as men. or 
have as much power as men. 
So. what stake could we pos¬ 
sibly have in a war on the other 
side of the globe? 

If we are Lesbians, the stake 
is even less, as we are almost 
totally ignored in the mind of 
society, unless we are por¬ 
trayed as psychotic viragos or 
used pornographically to stim¬ 
ulate straight men's eroto- 
aggressive drives. 

One night, early in the saga 
of the hostages in Iran. I asked 


not only be supporting their 

brother's fight against death, 
they will be fighting off their 
own. For war is death, a fact 
that is too-much ignored by the 
media. 

The drafting of women pre¬ 
sents women with a dilemma. 
To draft only men would clear¬ 
ly violate the principle of.equal 
rights for men and women for 
which we are fighting so hard. 
Therefore, if there is to be a 
draft, women must be includ¬ 
ed, and must be given combat 
training and duty. However, to 
draft anyone is to be prepared 
for war, and war is not a solu¬ 
tion to anything, especially an 
offensive war. Were we to be 
literally attacked on our own 
land. I think women would be 
quick to fight off the attack. But 
self-defense is one thing, and 
war nine thousand miles away 
is another, and our President is 
warning the Soviet Union that 
we will attack, although he 
pretends it is self-defense by 
claiming that the Persian Gulf is 
ours. 

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have no ERA. and yet they are 
talking about drafting us any¬ 
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sexes. Kill enough people and 
you win. perhaps, and gain 
control of the territory and re¬ 
sources until the next war. As 
events have unfolded over the 
past months. I have felt as 
though I were viewing a pissing 
contest, not so different from 
the pissing contest that is 
waged between the cats in my 
house. At other times. I have 
been reminded of the power 
struggles I have witnessed and 
been a part of between 
tantrum-throwing children and 
punitive, authoritarian adults. 
Carter has assumed a mighty 
posture of the punitive parent 
as we warn the Soviet cats to 
stay off our newly-defined turf. 

Personally. I don’t see much 
difference between the already 
accomplished Soviet invasion/ ! 
occupation of Afghanistan, and 
the impending U.S. rescue/in- 
vasion/occupation of Iran. Just 
because Carter is saying that 
Iran should view us as more 
benevolent than the Soviets 
does not mean that they will do 
so. After all. a major factor in 
the revolt against the Shah was 
their identification of him with 
American interests. 

Meanwhile, Carter has called 
for the reinstatement of draft 
registration, and draft 
resistance demonstrations have 
already begun, calling on 
memories of a decade ago. 
Graffiti have appeared, one of 
which says, “Iran: Hell No, We 
Won’t Go!” The suggestions by 
White House unnamed 
spokespersons that the U.S. is 
considering the first-strike use 
of nuclear weapons has turned 
the anti-nuclear focus on to the 
war. 

If, as has been suggested by 
the press, women are included 
in the reinstated draft, the anti¬ 
war movement will take on 
new dimensions. Women will 


Or do we say. as we have to 
Phyllis Schlafly. that we 
oppose the draft whether or 
not women are included. Do 
we lead the resistance to war? It 
was the demand that women 
make coffee instead of deci¬ 
sions in the last anti-war move¬ 
ment that gave birth to the wo¬ 
men’s movement. This time, I 
am sure that we would be 
making decisions alongside of 
men. and both of us will make 
the coffee. 

But even if we oppose the 
draft and war. what do we do 
with the fact that while we 
oppose it. we will be drafted. 
Do we refuse to go? Is there 
some contribution we can 
make within the armed forces, 
even in the war zone? Susan 


Brownmiller. in her . book 
“Against Our Will, ” pointed out 
that the only armies that did 
not seem to use rape as a 
method of demoralizing an in¬ 
vaded population, were those 
that drafted women. Her 
assumption was that it had 
something to do with the men 
working alongside of the wo¬ 
men. that they were no longer 
able to view women as sex ob¬ 
jects, a necessary precondition 
for rape. At West Point, how¬ 
ever, and other military acade¬ 
mies in this country, women 
cadets have been subjected to 
particularly rape-like forms of 
hazing, and on many U.S. mili¬ 
tary bases, the enlisted women 
have been subjected to much 
rape, with as many as half of 
them being so victimized on 
some bases. 

All in all. 1 think war is a 
lousy way to solve problems, 
just as I think fist fights, knif¬ 
ings, and shootings are a lousy 
way. War is devastating on the 
land on which it occurs, and 
destroys families and cultures 
in its path. An incredible num¬ 
ber of women in Vietnam were 
forced into prostitution by our 
holy war in that country, and a 
good deal of the starvation in 
Vietnam and Cambodia is a 
direct result of our bombing the 
hell out of their farms. 

In war, the raping and loot¬ 
ing are always done by the 
other side, but to the other 
side, we are the other side, and 
it is our troops that have done 
the raping and looting. With all 
this discussion of reinstating the 
draft, and whether women will 
be included, it is men who will 
decide. The Congress is more 
than 90 percent male, maybe 
even more than 95 percent. I 
wonder if any of the women 
will vote to reinstate the draft or 
to declare war. 

I think it is time that women 
began to refuse to support sys¬ 
tems that are so contrary to our 
interests. Last year the Con¬ 
gress increased defense spend¬ 
ing and cut abortion spending. 

I suspect that were the legisla¬ 
ture 51.4 percent women, 
which is our strength in the 
population, the priorities would 
change. Not only do I think 
that women should resist the 
draft. I think we should serious¬ 
ly consider refusing to pay our 
taxes until the ERA is ratified, 
abortions are paid for. Gay 
men and Lesbians are pro¬ 
tected from discrimination, 
prostitution is decriminalized, 
marital rape and wife beating 
are prosecuted, and 51.4 per¬ 
cent of the legislature is wo¬ 
men. Then we will see about 
war. 



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The Hen in Mr Life 

En Passant 

Paul-Francis Hartmann 

PARTI 




Gay folks might not be pro¬ 
lific in the nursery, but over the 
past five years they assuredly 
have been in the publishing 
department. 

In only the past three weeks 
a winter’s complement of six 
“bookettes” have arrived for 
promotion and response. None 
of them are from a major pub¬ 
lishing house (those mainline 
works are directed elsewhere). 
Several are do-it-yourself 
projects — which readily reveal 
their amateurism — all of them 
fulfilling media expert Marshall 
McLuhan’s prediction that 
advanced technology now en¬ 
ables everyone to be a pub¬ 
lished author of something — 
as long as the paper supply 
lasts and remains within the 
reach of the common man. 

The current crop include a 
volume of poetry, a psychi¬ 
atrist’s memoir, a notebook of 
impressions, a feminist odys¬ 
sey, the second volume of 
“Tales of the City, ” and a giddy 
cook book. 

A book “published” whether 
it ends up unboxed in the 
garage or on a neighborhood 
boutique discount table war¬ 
rants the originator the heady 
intoxicant of “author.” Unlike 
other pursuits — running 
around Golden Gate Park does 
not an athlete make — nor 
does blowing a horn elevate 
one a musician — yet coming 
out in print paints one a 
“writer.” Regardless of the 
depth of the coating, the new 
entrant retires to their armchair 
to await the arrival of Madame 
Fame and Mister Fortune. 
Happily for us all they seldom 
arrive. I say “happily” not from 
sour grapes or perversity but in 
hope the experience will sober 
the neophyte and spare the 
public the waste. 

Germaine Greer recently 
told Dick Cavett that she spent 
ten years on her latest publica¬ 
tion, a book on woman paint¬ 
ers. Her first plan was to pro¬ 
duce a dictionary of female 
artists — which no one was 
interested in — only a feasible 
prospect if she produced a per¬ 
sonal interpretation. In her case 
the salable commodity was 
Germaine Greer’s thinking — 
not her subjects. Hence the ten 
years of research and refine¬ 
ment. Her final product has 
been heralded as an important 
offering to life and letters. In 
this instance we will all — in¬ 
cluding the outrageous Ms. 
Greer — be the richer. 

★ ★ ★ 

The yield of this current Gay 
planting is not a uniform 
bounty. 

Will Roscoe has offered the 
Gay reader his “new writing” 
78/79, an 85-page self- 
indulgence entitled “Rough 
Sketches.” The effort is both 
rough and sketchy in the least 
flattering sense of the words. 
Roscoe prefaces, “These selec¬ 
tions are pie-slices of life and 
experience ... a personal 
watershed of the social, politi¬ 
cal, and spiritual events of the 
late seventies that have shaped 
the lives of myself, of my 
friends, of friends’ friends.” 

Roscoe tells us some of his 
sketches were scratched riding 
on trains — in the dark. His 


style is telegraphic — strung 
snippets. His mentor or muse is 
William Burroughs — who 
while forging a similar career as 
renegade and doper emerged a 
writer of suppose. Roscoe s 
prose speeds as one surmises 
so does Roscoe and his friends. 
This sliver is their San 
Francisco and much of their 
world. Hence the message is as 
fleeting as the medium. 

Of interest is Roscoe’s eye¬ 
witness/participation in the 
“White Night” riots ... the 
machine-gun fire works here. 
It’s not worth $7.50 though, 
and assuredly not $20.00 for 
“special marbled endpapers” 
— unless we have touched the 
time when packaging is all 
there is. 

A more curious arrival — if 
not intriguing because one 
wants to know more — is a 
“vitalogue” by dropout psychi¬ 
atrist Paul Rosenfels, founder 
of the Ninth Street Center in 
New York City. This 81-page 
effort labeled a “monograph” 
(which it is not) is subtitled “An 
Introduction to the Science of 
Human Nature.” If “introduc¬ 
tion” implies teaser, then “A 
Renegade Psychiatrist’s Story" 
qualifies. 

Today at 70 Rosenfels is re¬ 
tired. His tale begins after 
World War II as a prominent 
and successful psychiatrist in 
Chicago. He one day aban¬ 
dons wife and family and, like 
Alice, steps through the 
looking glass. Rosenfels 
doesn’t just drop out — he 
drops and drops for over 20 
years in the quest for self 
awareness self development. 

Rosenfels writes as if through 
a scrim — detached, at times 
flat. With style — he is no 
novelist. With detail — he is no 
biographer. 1 found myself 
needing and wanting to re-read 
sections a second and third 
time. Waht at first seemed 
commonplace, on second view 
became more significant. I fin¬ 
ished the piece wanting to 
know more about the man and 
his students. 

Rosenfels’ Ninth Street Cen¬ 
ter was founded in 1973 and is 
at 319 East 9th St., NYC. The 
titles of his other works (i.e. 
Homosexuality, The Psycholo¬ 
gy of the Creative Process) 
sound fascinating. The Oscar 
Wilde Memorial Bookshop, 15 
Christopher St., NY, NY 
10014, will send Renegade for 
$2 plus $.75 handling. 

Renegade has something 
important to say to Gays 
pledged to self awareness and 
self growth. 

To be continued. . . 

Parade 

Committee 

The San Francisco Gay 
Freedom Day Parade Commit¬ 
tee meets Sunday, Feb. 3, at 
5PM to elect officers. 

The group will meet at MCC 
Church, 150 Eureka St. At this 
meeting the 1980 officers will 
be elected: co-chairs and 

secretary. 

To vote, one will have had to 
attend one of the previous 
meetings. 


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Yuba City, CA 

Yuba College President 
Daniel Walker has been receiv¬ 
ing a lot of phone calls and let¬ 
ters lately, as have many other 
administrators at this small 
campus in north central Cali¬ 
fornia. The subject of the con¬ 
troversy is the Gay People’s 
Union, a club organized by 
campus Gays and recognized, 
by the college. Christian Wo¬ 
men Today, an off-campus 
group described as “religious 
bigots,” has presented the col¬ 
lege president, all seven college 
trustees and various state legis¬ 
lators with copies of a petition 
bearing four hundred names 
asking the school to reconsider 
recognition of the Gay group. 

While the so-called “Chris¬ 
tian” group has been most 
vocal in its attempt to deny Gay 
students the right to organize, it 
has been reticent to engage any 
principals in the debate. Larry 
Moorman, faculty advisor for 
the GPU, says that when the 
numerous ministers and other 
callers asking to speak to “the 
Gay students” are referred to 
speak with him, none of them 
ever seem to make the call. 
Most of the students in the 
GPU do not want their names 
used in the media. 

The school administration’s 
position has been made clear 
by President Walker. It is the 
right of all citizens, Gay or 
otherwise, to organize peace¬ 
ably, and the school will not, 
indeed cannot, deny them this 
right. Or as Larry Moorman 
says, “Thank God for the Bill of 
Rights.” The Gay People’s 
Union has, of course, followed 
all rules and regulations per¬ 
taining to college organizations. 
Sentiment on campus has gen¬ 
erally been supportive of the 
Gay students. 


Larry Moorman, a Humani¬ 
ties professor, questions the 
petition which says, “This 
country and our higher educa¬ 
tional system and values were 
founded on principles which 
are directly in conflict with the 
beliefs, values and goals of 
homosexuals.” “Protestant 
morality,” Moorman points 
out, “is based upon the con¬ 
science of the individual. Fur¬ 
thermore, the Bill of Rights 
asserts that the individual, not 
the state or the group, is the 
principal moral agent. Frank 
Lloyd Wright said the right of 
the individual to be different is 
the greatness of America.” 

While President Walker’s 
official position is that the 
school is neutral on any 
“morality issues” as raised by 
the protesting zealots, he feels 
that the school policy is not in¬ 
sulated from community 
morals and is not doing any¬ 
thing way out by recognizing a 
Gay campus group. “The 
school reflects community 
morals and what is deemed 
socially acceptable. These 
things change, and anyone 
who says they don’t is out of 
touch.” Walker says that as 
President he feels it is his duty 
to protect any student from 
“vigilante morality.” 


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by Gene 


Sunday, Feb. 3, is the date. 
From 11AM till 4FM The 
Watergarden will be closed for 
a private “by invitation only” 
party. Donations will be $10 
per person; all monies will be 
donated to the Santa Clara 
Valley Coalition for Human 
Rights. On hand will be 
abundant champagne and a 
full spread of eats. At 4PM The 
Watergarden will re-open for 
normal business for patrons 
who wish to celebrate this gala 
event. For an invitation, con¬ 
tact Sal Accardi, 275-1242. 

NEW BAR IN TOWN 

The Interlude, located at 
4942 Stevens Creek Blvd., 
Santa Clara, formerly Mary’s 
Celebrity House is back again. 
They serve Sunday Brunches 
and have a varied dinner 
menu. Top entertainment is 
offered in the lounge, with no 
cover charge. 

The Interlude, co-owned by 
local personality Mary Astor 
and Jim, will offer the best in 
entertainment, drinks and cui¬ 


sine at moderate prices. Cur¬ 
rently, they are featuring song- 
master Tommy Carlough. 

MODESTO 

The Brave Bull, biggest of 
the discos in the valley, will 
celebrate their 4th Anniversary 
on Sunday, Feb. 17. There will 
be a buffet at 4PM, compli¬ 
mentary champagne at mid¬ 
night, guest bartenders (some 
from San Francisco), collectors’ 
pens and buttons, and a draw¬ 
ing for a 14K gold bull neck¬ 
lace. Come prepared to stay 
overnight; if this one is like the 
last three, you won’t want to 
leave. 

SACRAMENTO 

Lady Garnett Presents will 
host the second annual Valen¬ 
tine Ball Saturday, Feb. 16, at 
the El Rancho Hotel. Over 
$1,000 in cash prizes are in the 
offering for best costume in 
•theme plus raffle and door 
prizes. Tickets are $10 advance 
and $12 at the door. Theme 
colors are pink, red and white 
this year. Lady Garnett puts on 


the most successful functions in 
the Sacramento area, so get 
out for this one. Sunday, the 
17th, there will be a gala 
brunch ($6 advance, $7 at the 
door) also to be held at the El 
Rancho Hotel. 

Gays Under 21 now have a 
new meeting place, having out¬ 
grown their present location. 
The new meeting place is the 
cafeteria of the St. Francis 
School located at 25th & K 
Streets, Thursdays at 7:30PM. 
Gays Under 21 have recently 
approved an 11-page constitu¬ 
tion with the major change 
allowing 21 year olds to remain 
or join the group. This will 
allow a transition period. Those 
Sacramento area Gays under 
21 wishing information on the 
group may call the Way Station 
at 447-1171, Alvin at 451- 
3600, or Rick at 758-2570. 

The Way Station in Sacra¬ 
mento is now offering rap 
groups. Men over 35 will meet 
Mondays at 7:30. Gay Parents, 
Tuesdays at 7:30, and 
TV/TS’s will meet Thursdays 
at 7:30. The Way Station is 
one of the Sacramento organi¬ 
zations offering help to all and 
have never been known to re¬ 
fuse anyone. They can direct 
you to the proper organization 
if they cannot help you direct. 
An organization designed to 
help Gay men and women 
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area. To be called “Our River 
City Family,” the organization 
will attempt to help develop¬ 
ment of relationships that bars, 
baths and oftentimes family do 
not give support.to. The next 
meeting of the group will be 
January 31 at the Incredible 
Edible Place, 1401 Alhambra 
Blvd., 6PM. 


FRESNO 

Fresno is now starting The 


Gay Coalition. The purpose of 
the group is to unite Gays in 
the Fresno area as one family. 
This group will help develop 
awareness of Gay political 
power, such as with Prop. 6, 
and unify the community. 

The Imperial Dove Court will 
hold Coronation ’80 on Febru¬ 
ary 22-24. The Hilton Hotel off 
Hwy. 99 is the place. Tickets 
are $10 advance, $12 at the 
door, and $6 for the Victory 
Brunch on Sunday. 


Obituary in Oakland 
ZEPHYR 

Born January 19, 1979 
Died December 31, 1979 

The unfeeling can tsk tsk and say “What a shame. ” 
But, believe me, the “community” is to blame. 


The .closing of ANY Gay 
establishment is a minus to the 
community in which it served. 
The Zephyr was a plus — a 
definite plus for those who 
cared and nurtured it. The 
Zephyr supported the commu¬ 
nity 100%. Too bad the sup¬ 
port wasn’t reciprocal. The 
Zephyr brought inexpensive, 
good, live entertainment to 
Oakland. Alas, too few re¬ 
sponded and appreciated the 
offering. Kudos and plaudits to 
Robert (undeniably the key 
stone), and to Jim, and to 


Scott for trying something dif¬ 
ferent. At least they had faith in 
Oakland, and in the “commu¬ 
nity.” Those of you who were 
“part” of the Zephyr know who 
you are. Ones who complain 
about the closing letting the 
“community” down, were not 
there to support it in the first 
place! The Zephyr added a lot 
and gave much to the “com¬ 
munity.” Its loss will be keenly 
felt by the loyal ones who spent 
many happy hours there. 

Nez Pas 


Children’s 

Hospital 

Benefit 

A benefit for Children’s Hos¬ 
pital, the King and Queen of 
Hearts Ball, will be held at the 
Lake Merritt Hotel Saturday, 
Feb. 9, starting at 8PM. 

Tickets are $15 and will in¬ 
clude a buffet, no host bar, and 
trophies for the best costumes 
(male and female) in theme. A 
cash prize will be awarded to 
the East Bay bartender who 
sells the most tickets. All 
trophies will be donated by 
Lancers Lounge, 1st Prize by 
the Lake Lounge, 2nd Prize by 
The Courtyard, and 3rd Prize 
by Big Mama’s in Hayward. All 
proceeds go direct to Child¬ 
ren’s Hospital in Oakland. This 
is the second annual King and 
Queen of Hearts Ball, the 
brainchild of Tony Valentine. 


Oak. Bartender 
Keeps Cool 
During Robbery 

Stan Chapman, daytime 
bartender at the popular Lake 
Lounge in Oakland, managed 
to keep his cool, and help his 
customers keep calm, during 
the Tuesday, Jan. 15, daylight 
robbery of the bar and its 
patrons. 

The robbers, two black men 
in their twenties, had cased the 
establishment earlier. Taken 
was the bar till, safe, and some 
customers’ personal belongings 
and money. Stan’s calm and 
reassuring manner helped cus¬ 
tomers through the traumatic 
experience. Oakland Police 
have no leads in the case at this 
time. 


ELAINE W. WALLACE 

Attorney at Law 


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REAL ESTATE, DOMESTIC RELATIONS, 
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HAYWARD 

by Dan Burris 


February 17, Hayward Cen¬ 
tennial Hall at 7FM will be the 
setting for Cotillion HI, “A Night 
in Paradise,” starring San Fran¬ 
cisco’s Entertainer of the Year, 
Miss Sharon McNight. If you 
have never seen Sharon’s 
show, do that night, she’s 
great; if you have, I know you 
will not want to miss this one. 
The theme for this year is going 
to work in one of Sharon’s 
favorite places, Hawaii, and 
she has just cut an album, “A 
Post Card from Paradise.” 

The other entertainment for 
the evening sounds great, too, 
with David & Johnny, Em¬ 
press 1 Suzie and the Hayward 
KOCKETTES, Lady Cha Cha 
from Oakland, Hawaiian band 
disco, no host bar, hors 
d’oeuvres and lots of fun. Tick¬ 
ets at all Hayward Gay bars or 
in Oakland at the Revol on 
Telbgraph Ave. and the Lake 
Lounge on Madison Ave. or 
call 881-0144 or 881-9877. 

Tickets are $10 in advance 
and $11 at the door. This is 
Hayward Equal Rights Organi¬ 
zation’s annual fund raiser and 
along with lots of fun and 
entertainment, we will present 
our Second Annual Harvey 
Milk Memorial Award (the first 
went to Ed Paulson). This year 
we are honored to have As¬ 
semblyman Art Agnos to pre¬ 
sent the award. It looks like a 


great time for all. 

Talk about tickets, did you 
hear that the Hayward Kock- 
ettes are going to sell their 
tickets on (get this!) toilet paper 
for their Ball in April. By the 
way, it is called Ball de la 
Toilet. Talk about tacky, it will 
be the tackiest, funniest enter¬ 
tainment anyone has ever 
seen — yes, that good! Those 
girls are already working their 
tits loose over it, just with the 
titles and awards I've heard of, 
it sounds F--king Fantastic! 
Now remember, April 13. 

On February 9 Big Mama’s is 
having a 50th birthday party for 
herself (oh well, we all like to 
have a birthday party and if no 
one else will — well, you 
know). Big Mama’s is also 
going to have a pre-Cotillion 
party Sunday, Feb. 17, from 5 
to 7PM with bubbly and hors 
d’oeuvres (by the way, it’s only 
one block from BART and the 
trains will run till midnight with 
the next day being a holiday). 
Thanks to both Ray and Jim for 
the party. Sunday the 24th, 
Empress I Suzie will have a 
Cut-A-Thon at Big Mama’s 
with all proceeds to go to 
A.C.I.E. 

Down the street at the Turf 
club there will be an African 
Night February 12, with an 
African drink, prizes for the 


best costume, and the crown¬ 
ing of the Turf Club’s first Afri¬ 
can Queen. All of this and 
more as a going away party for 
the owners, Jack and Jim, as 
they set out in hunt of a new 
bar for Frank to manage in 
Kenya. Jim will pick out the 
porters and Jack will load them 
up with cases of Kesslers. We 
all wish them a fun and safe 
trip. 

A little further down the 
street, the Get-A-Way will be 
having a Valentine Party on 
Friday, Feb. 15, at 9PM. They 
will have free champagne, free 
well drinks, free food and good 
disco. If it’s anything like their 
New Year’s party, it will be well 
worth the $12 for singles or 
only $20 for couples. 

Lil Ed’s is looking great, and 
from what I hear they are ex¬ 
panding it so they will have a 
large disco dance floor. Their 
Grand Opening is coming 
soon. 

Bowling anyone? This is 
Hayward’s 3rd Fruit Bowl 
season. We are still looking for 
bowlers, since some of our 
bowlers find it hard to get off 
their bar stools ... so remem¬ 
ber, every Wednesday night at 
Pro Lanes at 9:30. 

Also, on the 3rd Wednesday 
of every month there is the 
Hayward Equal Rights Organi¬ 
zation’s meeting with a different 
guest speaker each month. 
That’s at the Bank of America 
building on A Street & 2nd. 
Meetings start around 8PM, so 
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Tony Valentine’s King & 
Queen of Hearts II Ball is on 
Saturday, Feb. 9, held again at 
the Lake Merritt Hotel on 
Madison. There will be a no¬ 
host bar, dinner buffet, and 
prizes for the best costumes 
that fit the theme. The $15 
donation is to benefit Child¬ 
ren’s Hospital, East Bay. In a 
recent palaver with Tony, he 
told me there will be a cash 
prize for the bartender who 
sells the most tickets (which ?re 
on sale at most Oakland bars). 
The logistics on this are mind 
boggling, but I’m sure that 
Tony has it all worked out. 
Lancers is donating the tro¬ 
phies; Lake Lounge donates 
1st costume prize; Courtyard, 
2nd; and Big Mama’s, 3rd. 
Registration for contestants is 
the week prior at the Lake 
Lounge, across from the Hotel. 

Fred (Lake Lounge) now 
opens his Beef-Eater at 7AM to 
chivvy in the early birds. Also, 
his after-hours on Fridays and 
Saturdays is packing them in. 
When drinking into the wee 
hours, it’s nice to have a place 
to feed your face. The chili is 
good . . . not as good as mine, 


but we all have our favorite 
recipes. 

Lancers, on Lake Shore, 
had a Super Bowl pool ($125 
per quarter) and no, damn it, I 
DIDN’T WIN! But, two of their 
very own bartenders did, and 
so did the big (?) Captain of 
Revol! My gawd . . . there 
really is a Singapore, right 
Tony? 

It’ll Never Change Dept.: I 
attended Sharon McNight’s 
show in San Francisco one Sat¬ 
urday evening (she’s always 
great), but the superannuated 
attitudes of some residents of 
that city still prevail. Not only 
does bartender David NOT 
read the B.A.R. — so naturally 
he’s never heard of me — but 
he made some snide remarks 
and jokes about OAKLAND! 
This kind of attitude is the main 
reason I hate to spend my 
dollars over there. Keep our 
bucks on this side of the bay, I 
say! 

I heard that Gene Earl had to 
answer nature’s call one night 
at Revol and was asked, no, 
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bumfodder before he could 
partake of that particular activ¬ 
ity. They thank you, Gene . . . 
but would you please give 
them back the key? 

Speaking of Revol, the Feb¬ 
ruary birthday party will be on 
Wednesday, Feb. 13. Register 
by Tuesday to be eligible for 
one of the five nice presents. 
Cake and champagne for all in 
attendance. Age is no factor 
(over 21, of course), just proof 
of birth month. 

Oops! I was duly and right¬ 
fully chastised for not remem¬ 
bering to mention the discount 
available on rooms at the 
Friendship Inn, Telegraph and 
MacArthur. Mikky and Jean 
(lovely people) extend this 
offer. All you have to do is 
mention B.A.R., Revol, or Nez 
Pas . . . never Roy Plumber, 
however! By the by, I don’t be¬ 
lieve for a second that a certain 
doorman from the Zephyr lost 
an intimate item of jewelry 
(some kind of ring?) and Jean 
found it and thought it was a 
washer for the hot water faucet! 
Is it really that small, Dan? 

In all due respects, and even 
though I try to keep them on 
their toes, A.C.I.E. royalty is in 
there trying. Just recently, for 
instance, Empress I Suzie took 


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Sacramento. For a new empire 
to come away with top honors 
is, as they say, a real honor. 
The trophy, she told me, will 
be shared between Oakland 
and Hayward, with the former 
getting it first. When it goes to 
Hayward, I hope they consider 
using it for an urn for Ms. 
Plumber’s ashes! As I under¬ 
stand it, it is now on display at 
the Lake Lounge. Kisses on 
your functions, Suzie! You and 
Emperor I Ed deserve all the 
panegyrics offered. 

Something is brewing and I 
hope it does come to pass. 
Damn, I hate to admit this, but 
I actually witnessed Roy 
Plumber ruminating and ratio¬ 
cinating with Larry Gray (from 
H.E.R.O., the Hayward organ¬ 
ization) about the very likely 
possibility of exchange nights 
between bars in Oakland and 
bars in Hayward. It would 

necessitate a willingness on the 
part of Oakland bars to work 
together on this unique project, 
but I’m sure that some special 
happenings could be generated 
for our friends from south 
county, with the evening cul¬ 
minating at the previously 
mentioned Friendship Inn. It’s 
a nice idea to be able to party 
for hours and not have to 
worry about driving home. 
When Larry and Roy get the 
details worked out, and get the 
information to me, I’ll keep you 
up to date on the project. Pre¬ 
liminary thinking suggested 
that it be a once a month event, 
first in one city and then in the 
other, on a rotating basis. 
Sounds good . . . let’s hope it 
works. 

My feckless fountain of bon 
mots seems to have run dry for 
the moment, and since I hate 
to be seen mousing, I’ll close 
for now with the proffer to you 
to catch me next time! 

Love to you all, 

Nez Pas 


Anita Bryant’s 
Ministries 

Hollywood, Florida 

If you remember the Anita 
Bryant Gay Rights controversy 
of Miami 1977-78, you may 
remember Anita’s mission to 
1 counsel repentant homosexu¬ 
als. If you remember Anita’s 
i effort to straighten out homo¬ 
sexuals, you are one of the 
few. It seems the emphasis 
• now at Anita Bryant Ministries, 

I Inc.’s Hollywood, Florida, 

, headquarters is counseling 
families (by which they do not 
mean Gay families). Larry 
I Coy, one of the corporation’s 
seven directors, revealed that 
most of the activity at the min¬ 
istry’s phone counseling service 
I deals with marital problems, 
drug abuse, divorce and alco¬ 
holism. Perhaps a quarter of 
their “clients” have questions 
relating to homosexuality. 



After the publicity-drenched 
Gay rights struggle of 1977, 


Anita Bryant Ministries, Inc. 
(AnBryMin, Inc.) moved to 
larger headquarters, acquiring 
the space formerly occupied by 
a religious television station. At 
the time, spokespeople for 
AnBryMin, Inc. were quick to 
relate their commitment to cur¬ 
ing homosexuals who sincerely 
sought help. Now corporate 
figures tend to downplay 
that program, while generally 
denying any conscious shift in 
emphasis in their programs. 
“The problem we address is the 
disintegration of the American 
family,” Coy says. 

Mass religion of the non- 
denominational evangelical 
nature can be big business 
these days. Like the television 
station which occupied AnBry¬ 
Min, Inc.’s current space, 
Anita’s enterprise gains a good 
deal of its income in the form of 
donations from the people it 
reaches, those who come for 
counseling. Counseling 

homosexuals under the name 
of Anita Bryant must qualify as 
one of the more difficult ways 
to make a million in 1980. 

Thanks to MONTROSE STAR 

East Bay 
Benefit Reading 

On Wednesday, Feb. 13, at 
8PM a benefit reading is slated 
for International Women’s Day 
Conference on Working Wo¬ 
men at La Pena, 3105 Shat- 
tuck Avenue, Berkeley. A 
donation of $3 is requested. La 
Pena is wheelchair accessible. 
Featured readers from the Wo¬ 
men Writers Union: Lenore 
Weiss, Susan Dambroff, Nellie 
Wong, Gabrielle Daniels. 

U.C. Berkeley 

International 
Women’s Day 

International Women’s Day 
will be observed Saturday, 
March 8, with a day-long con¬ 
ference titled, “Working 
Women: We Can Shut This 
Country Down.” Sponsored by 
a coalition of Bay Area 
women’s groups, the confer¬ 
ence will be held on the U.C. 
Berkeley campus. 

Among the groups planning 
the conference are Women Or¬ 
ganized for Employment, the 
Women Writers Union, San 
Francisco Radical Women, and 
the Feminist Writers Guild. Be¬ 
ginning at 9AM at Kroeber 
Hall, the meeting will include 
forums, workshops, a keynote 
speech, and a cultural presen¬ 
tation. A small donation will be 
asked at the door. 

The focus will be on women 
working in traditional and non- 
traditional jobs, with a special 
emphasis on the links between 
sexism and racism as experi¬ 
enced in the workplace. 
Women who work are urged to 
attend this conference so we 
can all share with and learn 
from each other. 

Two events will be held to 
raise funds for this meeting. On 
Wednesday, Feb. 13, at 8PM, 
the Women Writers Union will 
sponsor a poetry reading at La 
Pena, 3105 Shattuck Avenue 
j in Berkeley with Susan Dam- 
I broff, Gabrielle Daniels, 
Lenore Weiss, and Nellie 
Wong reading from their work. 
Also, a fundraising auction will 
be held on Friday, Feb. 15, 
8PM, at 1427 Eighth Avenue 
in Oakland. 


Cranston to 
Reform 
INS Code 

U.S. Senator Alan Cranston 
(D-Calif.) last week introduced 
legislation changing the immi¬ 
gration law so that a homo¬ 
sexual alien cannot be barred 
on sexual grounds alone. 

“The law rewards dishon¬ 
esty, lying and hypocritical sub¬ 
terfuge,” Cranston said, “and it 
punishes honesty and open¬ 
ness.” 

“Simple fairness demands 
that we put an end to a form of 
discrimination that not only is 
intellectually unsound and 
medically unjustifiable, but 
which also violates traditional 
American respect for the right 
of privacy and the dignity of the 
individual.” 

Cranston noted that the U.S. 
Surgeon General last summer 
directed the Public Health 
Service to discontinue examin¬ 
ing homosexual aliens referred 
by the immigration service 
since homosexuality would no 
longer be considered a “disease 
or mental defect.” 

The Surgeon General’s rul¬ 
ing was based partly on a find¬ 
ing by the American Psychiatric 
Assn, in 1973 that homosexu¬ 
ality is not a mental disorder. 

Cranston said enforcement 
of the immigration law barring 
“aliens afflicted with psycho¬ 
pathic personality, sexual devi¬ 
ation or a mental defect” has 
been “inconsistent . . . arbitrary 
and inequitable.” 

He said only 31 persons 
have been denied admission to 
the U.S. under that provision 
from 1971 to 1978. 

Cranston said that ironically 
the situation has worsened late¬ 
ly because of the “eminently 
sensible” Public Health Service 
decision refusing to participate 
in the barring of homosexuals. 
Now “inexpert immigration 
officers acting alone” make the 
determination of whether 
homosexuality constitutes a 
disease or mental defect, Cran¬ 
ston observed. 

“The situation is absurd,” 
Cranston said. 

Cranston’s legislation 

amends Section 212(a)(4) of 
the Immigration and National¬ 
ity Act to delete the words 
“sexual deviation” as grounds 
for denying entry into the U.S. 
The section would still bar 
aliens suffering from a “psycho¬ 
pathic personality or a mental 
defect.” 


San Jose 
Rights Benefit 

Dean Tomich Enterprises 
and the San Jose Community 
Volleyball League have an¬ 
nounced a benefit for the Santa 
Clara Valley Coalition for 
Human Rights. The benefit for 
the Gay rights struggle will be 
held on Sunday, Feb. 24, at 
Noon. Jock Strap Volleyball 
will be the program, and three 
matches have been scheduled. 

The gym is on Dana Street 
(between Naglee and Hester 
Streets) in San Jose. For more 
information, call 266-4369. 


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Ballet: 


Red Alert 
Launches Season 


Performances Beginning at 9:30 P.M. 


San Francisco Ballet opened 
its season with blood and 
feathers all over the stage. 
Michael Smuin’s Indian ballet, 
A SONG FOR DEAD WARRI¬ 
ORS grows win impact upon 
repeated viewing. The first two 
times I saw this ballet it was all 1 
could do to brace myself 
against the sheer visual assault 
coming at me from the stage. 
But a growing familiarity with 
the work allows one to 
examine WARRIORS more 
carefully. One cannot help but 
admire Smuin’s skill in etching 
out a picture in dance terms of 
racist oppression, lost ritual, 
and an abused native 
American heritage. 


Antonio Lopez and Evelyn 
Cisneros appeared as the 
young lovers. Lopez continues 
to impress audiences with his 
lithe, youthful dancing. His 
final moments (including the 
gruesome scalping of Vane 
Vest as a law officer) leave the 
audience in stunned disbelief. 
Several dancers have 
commented that the ballet 
evokes a great deal of guilt in 
performance, often leaving 
audiences with an uncomfort¬ 
able twinge in their hearts. 
Nevertheless, it remains a 
superb piece of relevant dance 
theatre. WARRIORS is aided 
tremendously by Ronald 
Chase’s projections and 
Charles Fox’s haunting score. 
And when those buffalo come 
tramping out from backstage, 
well, my knees turn to putty! 


‘NOTHING 
SHORT 
OF A 
COMIC 
MASTERPIECE.” 
—Gottfried, 
N.Y. Post 

BLrU 


BOX OFFICE OPENS FEB. 4 


Another look at Lew Chris¬ 
tiansen’s SCARLATTI PORT¬ 
FOLIO finds one almost begin¬ 
ning to like the piece despite its 
limitations. David McNaughton 
triumphed once more as 
Arlequin, performing fiendishly 
unnatural acts with a hula 
hoop. Victoria Gyorfi was a 
delicate Columbine. The 
commedia dell’arte mime has 
gained some buoyancy in re¬ 
peated performance. The work 
is a pleasant trifle and a sweet 
enough way to end any eve¬ 
ning’s program. 




TO BE FOLLOWED IN REPERTORY BY 


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“Buffalo girls won’t you come out tonight???” Horacio Cifuentes stirs up 
some action in Michael Smuin’s ballet A SONG FOR DEAD WARRIORS. 


Moss Butler, originally from 
Wisconsin, arrived in San Fran¬ 
cisco in 1969 and attended the 
S.F. Art Institute. Since then 
he has lived and exhibited in 
Chile, Mexico, and Northern 
California. 


Also staged was the local 
premiere of DIVERTIMENTO 
NO. 15, another of Balan¬ 
chine’s clinical gems, set to 
Mozart. The company danced 
it with precision and grace, but 
I, for one, am a sucker for stage 
effects. 

SFB’s next program is a re¬ 
vival of LA FILLE MAL 
GARDEE which includes 
dancing roosters, one of the 
great classic drag roles in all 
ballet, and a mental pygmy fly¬ 
ing through the air on an um¬ 
brella. I can’t wait!!!! 

George Heymont 

Exhibit by 
Gay Artist 

Paul Grant of the Gallery Be¬ 
come at 1 Haight Street will be 
presenting the oil paintings and 
drawings of Moss J. L. Butler 
from February 14 to March 18. 


Of his upcoming show Grant 
comments, “It reveals the in¬ 
tense search by a Gay man for 
his primordial origins, the 
search and rediscovery of his 
soul.” 

This show, according to 
Grant, documents Butler’s 
“search” over the past ten 
ears. The most recent are 
omo-erotic paintings, “paint¬ 
ings that probe our begin¬ 
nings.” 

Butler, a student of Jungian 
psychology, attributes much of 
his inspiration to the famous 
Swiss psychiatrist. Says Butler, 
“These works are my fantasy 
images of what Jung calls the 
Archetypes . . . These paint¬ 
ings are part of my ‘Inner Jour¬ 
ney,’ my ‘making the Dream 
real,’ my Myth Making, my 
Soul Making.” 

A reception is scheduled 
February 14 from 5:30 to 
8:00PM. 


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Stage: 

ACT’s “The Crucifer of Blood” 


FILM CLIPS 


GETTING HIGHER ON SHERLOCK HOLMES 

Some day ACT will disappoint me, but the time has yet to arrive. And when the day comes when 
they lay a big egg, there will — I am confident — be enough positive chicks aborning to counter¬ 
balance the blob. 



To me Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson will always be Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce — the 
tattoo of too many Saturday morning second features. And to suggest that another pair could fill 
their shoes perennially fails to wash ... but then I failed to grasp the multiple talents of ACT’s Peter 
Donat. Donat convincingly makes Sherlock Holmes his very own creation He was a joy to 

eXperienC6 ' CRUCIFER OF BLOOD is 

not vintage Sir Arthur Conan 
Doyle; it is the imagination of 
“avid fan” director/playwright 
Paul Giovanni. To titillate the 
contemporary audience much 
of the plot revolves around 
drugs, murder, and gore. 

To accommodate settings 
from Agra, India, Holmes’ 
London flat, Maidenhead, and 
a Limehouse opium den, scene 
designer Michael Miller worked 
around a massive black metal 
erector set-like frame. 


ACT's Peter Donat adds Sherlock Holmes to his repertoire in THE 


For all its showmanship, 
ACT’s latest offering at the 
Geary is not showy. It strives 
for a theater of simpler times — 
unadulterated melodrama. 
Ranging from the witty to the 
almost silly, and led by Donat’s 
sterling rendering of Sherlock 
Holmes, ACT’s CRUCIFER 
OF BLOOD could well become 
their staple crowd-pleaser of 
the season. 


CRUCIFER OF BLOOD. 


Paul-Francis Hartmann 


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Dick Van Dyke as Father Riuard and Kathleen Quinlan as Sister Rita in 20th 
Century-Fox's THE RUNNER STUMBLES. 


THE RUNNER STUMBLES 
stars Dick Van Dyke, miscast as 
a priest accused of murdering a 
nun, Kathleen Quinlan. Stan¬ 
ley Kramer, who has directed 
much better than here with 
other social consciousness 
stories (INHERIT THE WIND, 
JUDGEMENT AT NUREM¬ 
BERG, GUESS WHO’S COM¬ 
ING TO DINNER?), has taken 
a lucid stage play based on a 
true story and transformed it 
into a turgid, heavy-handed 
bore. Van Dyke questions his 
place in the Church after he 
falls in love with the young nun 
sent to his poor backwoods 
parish. The nun who has a 
Mary Poppins quality is viewed 
as too liberal by the townsfolk 
and when she is forced to lie to 
the visiting Bishop she, too, 
goes on a guilt trip. Add to this 
Maureen Stapleton as a middle 
aged spinster who acts as the 
parish housekeeper (she does 
floors and windows but can’t 
read directions on soup cans), 
Ray Bolger as the Bishop, and 
Tammy Grimes as a sinkable 


Molly Brown. With all this 
Broadway musical talent why 
didn’t they just turn this melo¬ 
drama into a musical comedy. 
With a plot as inconsistent as 
this one, they could have called 
it “Holier Than Thou!” 

★ ★ ★ 

EL SUPER is about a Cuban 
exile, now a superintendent of 
an apartment house on the 
upper west side in New York. 
He wants to go back to Cuba or 
at least Miami. He spends the 
entire movie complaining 
about the bad winter, the lousy 
job, the tenants, the city, and 
finally after emptying the 
garbage and shoveling the 
snow repeatedly lands a job in 
Miami. He tells his wife and 
daughter to pack their things 
and holds a farewell party for 
his friends. 

The high point of the movie 
is when he goes upstairs to fix a 
fourth floor tenant’s broken 
window. 



The cast from EL SUPER. 


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Stage 


Camp 

“Camille” 

Comes 

The Ridiculous Theatrical 
Company, founded in New 
York in 1967 and an off- 
Broadway hit ever since, will 
set up temporary residence at 
the On Broadway Theater in 
San Francisco, opening with 
“Camille,” Charles Ludlam’s 
free adaptation of Dumas’ “La 
Dame Aux Camilias” on Tues¬ 
day, Feb. 19. 

During the past twelve years, 
Ludlam, Lola Pashalinsky, 
John Brockmeyer, Black-eyed 
Susan and Bill Vehr have 
worked as an ensemble in un¬ 
broken continuity, with Ludlam 
as artistic director and play¬ 
wright in residence. The com¬ 
pany has developed a style of 
ensemble playing which 
synthesizes wit, parody, vaude¬ 
ville, farce, melodrama and 
satire, giving reckless immedi¬ 
acy to classical stagecraft. 




Magic Theatre’s 

EMPEROR NORTON 

AMBITIOUS PLAY WITH MUSIC 


James Schevill’s EMPEROR 
NORTON received its world 
premiere at the Magic Theatre 
last week with an ambitious but 
ultimately boring production 
directed by John Lion. The 
play, commemorating the 
100th anniversary of the death 
of Norton, a curious San Fran¬ 
cisco character circa the 
1870’s, gives us little of the self- 
proclaimed emperor’s eccentric 
life, focusing instead on the 
economic and political oppor¬ 
tunists who used his good 
name in the years following his 
death. What might be an invig¬ 
orating glimpse into our city’s 
colorful history, instead be¬ 
comes a heavy-handed lesson 
in corruption vaguely reminis¬ 
cent of a somber Brechtian 
epic. 


The faults lie in a number of 
places. Jerome Rosen’s score is 
relentlessly moody. Moreover, 
whatever excitement the music 
does muster is encumbered by 
rather bland lyrics. John Wil- MarkTopkin 


son’s stark, black set stretches 
beyond the limits of the 
theater’s facilities causing 
excessive time lapses for scene 
changes and, even more dis¬ 
concerting, obstructed sight¬ 
lines. 

John Lion, who serves as 
General Director of the Magic 
Theatre, creates some excel¬ 
lent visuals in handling his large 
cast, and there were several 
superior performances, notably 
the acting of Mark Petrakis in 
the title role and the singing of 
Felicity La Fortune as the 
Empress Norton. Overall, how¬ 
ever, I found the play neither 
enlightening nor entertaining. 

EMPEROR NORTON plays 
Thursdays through Sundays 
until February 17 at Fort 
Mason, Building D. Call 441- 
8001 for more information. 
Only, I think, for the diehard 
(and gloomy) S.F. history buff. 


Charles Ludlam as Marguerite Gautier and Bill Vehr as Armand Duval in the 
Ridiculous Theatrical Company's CAMILLE, opening at the On Broadway 
Theatre February 19. 


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“Camille,” starring Charles 
Ludlam as Marguerite Gautier 
(described by the New York 
Times as “no facile female im¬ 
personation, but a real per¬ 
formance”) will play Mondays 
through Saturdays. 

Following “Camille” in 
repertory will be “Stage 
Blood,” (a “Hamlet” with a 
happy ending) and “Blue 
Beard,” a satire of horror 
shows. 


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Broadway Theater, 435 
Broadway (398-0800) opens 
February 4. For group sales, 
call 849-3951. 


Gold Awards 
Nominations 

Nominees for the second 
annual Cabaret Gold Awards 
were announced last week by 
the San Francisco Council on 
Entertainment. 

Contenders for the coveted 
Entertainer of the Year Award 
were shared for the second 
year by singers Pilar du Rem, 
Ruth Hastings and Sharon 
McNight, with the winner to be 
determined by popular vote on 
the awards evening on 
Monday, March 3, at Bimbo’s. 
The three singers were also the 
three nominees for Outstand¬ 
ing Female Cabaret Vocalist. 

Nominees for outstanding 
achievement in eight other 
categories are: 

MALE VOCALIST: Craig 
Jessup; David Reighn; Jae 
Ross; Steve Seskin 

COMEDY GROUP: Almost 
Original Committee; Duck’s 
Breath Mystery Theatre; The 
Rick and Ruby Show 

COMEDY SOLO: Mark 
McCollum; Lori Shannon; 
Carrie Snow 

MUSICAL GROUP: Nich¬ 
olas, Glover & Wray; Toons; 
Turk Murphy’s Jazz Band 

MUSICIAN/ACCOMPA¬ 
NIST: Jules Broussard; Glen 
Kelly; Doug Trantham 

CABARET-THEATRE 
PRESENTATION: An Evening 
at Widow Begbick’s; Berlin 
1932; Coward! In A Cardboard 
Cup. . .; Quirks 

CABARET: Chez Jacques; 
The City; Fanny’s; The Great 
American Music Hall 

VISITING NATIONAL 
ARTIST: Ella Fitzgerald; 

Michael Greer; Joel Grey; 
Robin Williams 


Pop: 

Up* Coming & Choice 

By Adam Block 

DANCE TO NEW WAVE‘N’ROCK: Although Oil Can Harry’s con¬ 
tinues to welcome the 18-21 year old crowd, they have eliminated new 
wave tunes from their playlist. Happily, The City will be re-opening 
Thursday. Jan. 31, with an all-rock playlist featuring former X’s djs 
Howie, Beverly and Richard at the turntables. The Stud remains the 
non-sexist, cover free, flagship with dj Larry appearing Sunday thru 
Wednesday, though Mondays remain the most crowded and relentless. 
(The City. Montgomery off Broadway. 8 days a week, cover $2: The 
Stud. 12th & Folsom. Free) 

MUDDY WATERS, JOHN LEE HOOKER: A new club opens 
auspiciously with two legendary blues musicians — national treasures . 
both. Hooker is a gravel-voiced eccentric who made his mark in Detroit. 
Muddy remains a regal resident of Chicago. These two were heroes to 
the early Rolling Stones and Animals — living touchstones. If you’ve 
never been to a blues show, see this one. (The Stone. 412 Broadway. 
Jan. 31. 8& 11. $7.50 adv/$8.50 door) 

SVT, YOUNG CANADIANS, DAILY PLANET: The headliners 
feature the most potent rhythm section on the local scene. The vocals 
and lyrics could use some attention, but the music bucks for the fierce 
celebration of The Clash. The Canucks used to be the K-Tels. (Mabu- 
hay. Feb. 1. 11pm. $4) 

MOSE ALLISON: Combining blues and be-bop with his own 
laconic wit. Mose is a unique stylist; a favorite of Bonnie Raitt’s. (Great 
American Music Hall. Feb. 1. 9pm. $6) 

JERRY GARCIA: One of the gen-u-ine 60’s guitar heros. Garcia’s 
local club dates have long been one of the special joys of this burgh. 
Some will tell you that here resides the true wonders of The Dead, with¬ 
out all the hocus-pocus. Others will tell you it’s just a boring old fart. Let 
those who have ears hear. (The Stone. Feb. 1&2. 8& 11. $6 advance/ 
$7 show) 

BOBBY BLUE BLAND: The man’s warm yet vulnerable style 
stands somewhere astride both jazz and blues. He is a masterful, if 
tame, performer and this rare club date could be worth seeking out. 
(Disco City. Berkeley. Feb. 1.2&3. 8& 11pm. tel: 849-3258) 

SONNY ROLLINS: Rollins remains a daring, brilliant tenor sax 
player, despite recent unsuccessful forays into funk and fusion. He still 
boasts strength and swagger to beat the band. (Great American Music 
Hall. Feb. 3. 8:30& 11pm. $6.50) 

DEXTER GORDON: Another muster of the tenor-sax, Gordon 
brings a sardonic touch to infectious swing; a favorite of John Col- 
trane’s. (Keystone Korner, Feb. 5-10. 8&llpm, $6) 

EIGHT EYED SPY: This band featuring Lydia Lunch, formerly of 
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, are characterized by one critic as playing, 
“funky angular jazz rock as Lydia talk-shouts her love-hate lyrics in a 
high deadpan.” It’s supposed to be sexy, funny, and the latest rage in 
the Big Apple. Shucks, they’re even coming here to play. (Mabuhay. 
Feb. 7.8&9, 11pm, $4) 

GREG KIHN, RUBINOOS: Berserkeley Records’ great pop threats 
have failed to storm the nation, but that just means we still get to see 
them cheap. I’d rather see this show than Tom Petty with the Knack. 
(The Stone, Feb. 8. 8& 1 lpm, $5.50 advance/$6.50 door) 

MARTHA REEVES AND THE NEW VANDELLAS: MS. Reeves 
recent comeback and disco efforts were great disappointments, but the 
woman who gave us “Heat Wave” and “Dancin’ In The Streets” has 
been known to torque on the oldies, and may have some new tricks. 
(The Palms, Feb. 13.8&1 lpm, $4) 

THE SPECIALS: These lads take the seminal reggae attack of ska 
and marry it to a new wave sensibility, kind of like when white boys like 
the Stones took on the blues, and the result has been flooring them in 
Britain. Their lp, produced by Elvis Costello, is just out and a marvel. 
They look to be the most exciting band over from the U.K. since tfu 
Gang of Four — and they will be playing a Gay disco. (The City, Feb. 
13, 9&llpm, $5) 


BAY AREA REPORTER JANUARY 31,1980 PAGE 22 





























Verona Seiter, Gretchen Grant, and Kevin Harris in Magic Theatre’s pre¬ 
miere of EMPEROR NORTON, weekends through February 17 — “ambitious 
but ultimately boring production’’-- mark Topkin 

Stage: 

MARATHON ’33 


The cast, too, is admirable. 
Steve Coats as Patsy, the 
perennial marathon favorite, 
gives an especially dynamic 
performance. Lorri Holt- 
LeGrand as June does a fine 
job of growing from a naive 
young girl into a wise woman. I 
also enjoyed the six-piece 
combo that provides music for 
the dancers as well as the 
vocals of Tom Fleming. 

The weakness of MARA¬ 
THON ’33 lies in the play itself. 
Often disjointed and choppy, I 
never got a sense of character 
depth. Thus 1 remained an 
amused spectator of the mara¬ 
thon rather than being hooked 
emotionally by the plight of the 
dancers. 

Nonetheless, this production 
of MARATHON ’33 is admira¬ 
ble. It runs through February 
16 at the Eureka Theatre, 2299 
Market (at 16th). For ticket 
reservations call 863-7133. 
This is not a pleasant part of 
American history, but certainly 
a colorful one, and the Eureka 
has done an exceptional job of 
recreating it. 

Mark Topkin 


EVOCATIVE PRODUCTION OF 
JUNE HAVOC PLAY AT THE EUREKA 




MARATHON ’33 is about 
marathon dancing, that phe¬ 
nomenon of the depression in 
which couples danced for 45 
minutes out of every hour — 
sometimes for months on end 
— in hope of winning a cash 
prize to sustain them during an 
era when jobs were nigh im¬ 
possible to obtain and the next 
meal was ever a bleak uncer¬ 
tainty. 

Marathons were little more 
than zoos. The dancers — 
called “monkeys” by those in 
the business — were caged ani¬ 
mals, performing for an audi¬ 
ence who on occasion reward¬ 
ed them by throwing pennies at 
their feet. For many dancers it 
was a humiliating, dehumaniz¬ 
ing experience but also their 
only hope for salvation from 
their dead-end existence. 

The play by June Havoc — 
sister of Gypsy Rose Lee and 
herself a veteran marathon 
dancer — has been given a 
painstakingly detailed produc¬ 
tion that recreates all the 
cruelty and determination of 
the marathon. Bravos for 
authenticity are due for all the 
company’s designers as well as 
for director Alma Becker who, 
working with a large ensemble, 
creates, builds, and sustains 
moods and mentalities ranging 


Steve Coats, the star of MAR A THON 3c 
from tenderness to hysteria 

throughout the performance. 
No moment is left unshaded. 


i neaire s 
Cynthis Blevins. 


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THE CITY 
REGROUPS 

Impresario Tom Sanford an¬ 
nounced this week that North 
Beach’s The City has under¬ 
gone a total change in format. 

Starting January 31 The 
City’s upstairs room will feature 
new wave and rock dancing 
with DJ’s Howie Klein, Richard 
Gossett and Beverly Wilshire. 

The room will be open 7 
nights per week from 9PM to 
2AM. Sanford said an opening 
party is planned for the near 
future and will be headed up by 
a special guest new wave band. 
Until the revamping, The City 
was regarded as one of the 
city’s first and long-popular 
discos. 

The former showroom 
downstairs which headlines 
some of the top cabaret enter¬ 
tainers in the country has also 
undergone a transformation. It 
is now called The Back Door 
(entrance on Bartol Alley — off 
Broadway). The Back Door 
will feature live performances 
of new wave and punk rock 
bands. Sanford said there will 
be two to three bands per night 
Wednesday through Sunday. 

Upstairs the door charge will 
be $3.00. The Back Door will 
range between a $2.00 and 
$4.00 charge. 

Sanford last month also 
opened # ’s, the third new bar 
on upper Fillmore, which is fast 
becoming a popular area for 
not only Pacific Heights Gays 
but for Gay men from all over 
the city who want to avoid the 
tourists and some of the stereo¬ 
types. According to Sanford, 
# ’s first month has been one of 
tremendous success. 


Parents of Gays 
Benefit 

Parents and Friends of Gays 
of San Francisco and the Bay 
Area have scheduled a fund¬ 
raiser Saturday, Feb. 23 at 
8PM. 

The concert will feature 
Joanie Becker and Betty Kap- 
lowitz and will be at the MCC 
Building, 150 Eureka St.., S.F. 

For more information, call 
349-0542 or 626-6937. 


Gay Actors 
& Actresses 
Sought 

Gay men and women are 
now being sought to join Katos- 
Rota’s on-going intensive Act¬ 
ing Workshops. The Work¬ 
shops are based on a holistic 
ensemble approach to acting as 
an art. Workshops include 
movement exercises (dance/ 
yoga), theatre games, and in¬ 
struction in Stanislavski tech¬ 
niques combined with a 
modern treatment of classical 
material. Beginners are most 
welcome. 

Members work in a non¬ 
sexist supportive atmosphere 
and can participate in Katos- 
Rota’s 1980 CITY DIONYSIA, 
a theatre festival to be held 
June 22 at the Palace of Fine 


Arts. This year’s festival will 
include performances of 
MEDEA and LYSISTRATA 
and has been dedicated to the 
passage of the Equal Rights 
Amendment. KatosRota’s first 
production AMERICA 

BUSTED was nominated by 
the Cable Car Awards for Out¬ 
standing Achievement in 
Drama. 

Acting Workshops are held 
Saturdays, 1:30-4, at the Bush 
Street Studio and are under the 
direction of Alexander Larsen. 
For information and registra¬ 
tion phone 861-8362 or 431- 
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Tales of Tcssi Tura 

Cheap Trills 

by George Heymont 




Ah, those dizzy Donizetti 
freaks. They’ll do anything to 
hear a woodpecker warble, 
thunder rumble, or watch some 
poor deranged girl run up and 
down the stairs all night long. 
Not wanting to miss out on a 
good fix, I flew to Los Angeles 
last fall while the New York 
City Opera was on the West 
Coast. My determination to 
catch City Opera’s new cast for 
LUCIA D1 LAMMERMOOR 
meant foregoing Birgit 
Nilsson’s recital in San Francis¬ 
co, but those trills won out in 
the long run. Donizetti remains 
triumphant. Our poor Lucia is 
as mixed up as ever! 

ITS A MAD, MAD, 

MAD, MAD WORLD! 

Poor Lucia! It’s not easy to 
time your temper tantrums to a 
qlass harmonica. But the girl 

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has spunk, all right. City 
Opera’s production was built 
around Beverly Sills almost a 
decade ago. Today it retains its 
strong period flavor and works 
well to show off the talent of its 
young cast. LUCIA is one of 
my all-time favorite operas. 
This matinee in LA-land was 
one of the best performances of 
Donizetti’s magical trash I’ve 
heard in years. When LUCIA is 
performed well (and I mean 
REALLY well) I end up rock¬ 
ing back and forth in my seat in 
sheer delight, frothing as those 
trills, runs, and arpeggios cas¬ 
cade over the stage apron and 
twinkle their way through the 
house. It is a special kind of 
■musical excitement, like open¬ 
ing up a treasure chest to find a 
blinding'array of hidden jewels. 


In her new position as Gen¬ 



eral Director of the company, 
Sills cast the production with a 
keen ear toward a strong, bal¬ 
anced ensemble. Ermanno 
Mauro has lost weight and con¬ 
tinues to mature as an artist. As 
Edgardo he poured forth 
clarion tones which had me 
gripping the armrest with the 
breathless excitement one feels 
while racing down the runway 
in a DC-10. Mauro’s phrasing 
and nuance have grown over 
the years. He also appears 
more physically relaxed on¬ 
stage. 

His enemies were formid¬ 
able, indeed. Robert Hale’s 
booming voice added new 
dimensions to Lucia’s tutor, 
Raimondo. Hale has been 
bouncing around NYCO and 
San Diego Opera for several 
years and is finally coming into 
his own as an artist. This May 
he tackles Boito’s MEFIS- 
TOFELE in San Diego. I 
reckon it will be a knockout 
affair. Even Richard Fredericks 
managed to get excited and get 
into the action as Lucia’s 
brother, Enrico. 

Any performance of LUCIA, 
though, rests on the soprano’s 
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came through with musician- 
ship to spare. Her voice is bril¬ 
liant, well-trained, and pliant. 
Often referred to backstage at 
NYCO as “Miss Personality,” 
she is a moving actress: fragile 
in her tiny delicacy, scared, 
and confused as an unwilling 
child bride, frightened and 
sadly deranged in her final mo¬ 
ments. It is a superb character 
realization, both vocally and 
dramatically. Rolandi repeats 
the role oppostie Barry 
McCauley in San Diego in May 
of 1981. Mark your calendar 
now to send for tickets. 

ALL THOSE 
HORNY NUNS! 

Not as triumphant was City 
Opera’s production of COUNT 
ORY. Originally designed for 
the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 
this production of Rossini’s 


comic opera has a hard time 
finding its identity. What saved 
the evening was the talent and 
stage savvy of the young cast. 
The plot is ridiculous. It centers 
around a bunch of horny 
rogues who disguise them¬ 
selves as nuns in order to get 
into the pants of the castle’s 
women (whose husbands have 
gone off to a long war). One 
thing is for sure: the City 
Opera’s male chorus is by far 
the humpiest bunch of nuns 
I’ve seen (especially that short 
number with the droopy 
mustache). Act II features a 
wonderful scene where Count 
Ory, disguised as the penitent, 
shy, “Sister Clara” romps all 
over the bedroom, trying to get 
his hands on Countess Adele. 
Rockwell Blake’s hilarious 
threeway in bed with Ashley 
Putnam and Faith Esham is a 


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masterpiece of camp. Charles 
Pierce couldn’t have done a 
better job. 

David Holloway and Sam 
Ramey shone in supporting 
roles. Rockwell Blake’s strange 
voice can do wonders in certain 
moments, but alas, can also re¬ 
main inaudible for much of the 
evening. He has the flexibility 
needed for Rossini’s music 
coupled with an astonishing 
top range. But his perform¬ 
ances tend to be unevenly 
paced and need beefing up. 
Ashley Putnam did what she 
could with the role of the 
Countess, delivering nice trills 
and runs in her better musical 
passages and vamping like 
Theda Bara in her critical 
scenes with “Sister Clara.” 
What a wierd opera this is. . . 

THE BOYS 
FROM SYRACUSE 

Back at home, the San Fran¬ 
cisco Opera mounted a concert 
version of Rossini’s TAN- 
CREDI. It was the most tasteful 
production of the season, save 
for one glaring mistake by a 
costume designer who dis¬ 
guised Marilyn Horne as an 
armadillo wrapped in gold 
Christmas foil. The inane plot 
was narrated by Sydney 
Walker from American Con¬ 
servatory Theatre, who lent 
some desperately needed dig¬ 
nity to the story. 

The evening, while not 
always exciting, was a musical 
triumph. Horne pulled out all 
stops, demonstrating her phe¬ 
nomenal technique and florid 
tones. As Amenaide, Marghe- 
rita Rinaldi handled the 
soprano chores with grace and 
style. The evening was con¬ 
ducted by Henry Lewis with a 
keen sensitivity to the music’s 
stylistic demands, and the 
chorus of Syracusans sat neatly 
dressed in tuxedos against a 
sunset drop. The evening’s 
simplicity was one of its strong¬ 
est assets. For once, the audi¬ 
ence was allowed to concen¬ 
trate on the splendor of sound 
and rejoice in the glory of the 
music. 

★ ★ ★ 

Both Donizetti and Rossini 
hold a special place in my 
heart. Their music builds to 
stunning climaxes, often 
bubbles with a delightful insou¬ 
ciance — in general making 
people happy. We need more 
of that kind of stimulation these 
days. Whether it be the over¬ 
ture to Rossini’s BARBER OF 
SEVILLE, the first act finale of 
CENERENTOLA, or the sextet 
from LUCIA, the music warms 
the deepest cockles of my 
heart. The proof of the 
pudding became known one 
summer night in Seattle. After 
driving across Montana and the 
Pacific Northwest with only 
country western music on the 
radio dial for three days, I 
checked into Dave’s Baths. At 
3AM, whilst being courted in 
some strange primitive mating 
ritual, a tape of Rossini over¬ 
tures came over the sound 
system. I sat bolt upright in bed 
and pointed to the door. “Get 
out,” I told the trick, “I wanna 
listen to the music!” 

That’s right! The music 
comes first. I could never con¬ 
centrate on Rossini while in a 
compromising position. 

George Heymont 


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Stage: 

IMAGES 


A FRENCH 
MUSICAL IMPORT 


by John F. Karr 

The title alone is suspicious. 
Its very lack of anything specific 
reflects the show it names, 
IMAGES — a blandness now 
playing at the Marines Memo¬ 
rial Theatre. 

IMAGES consists of twenty- 
nine songs by French song¬ 
writer Serge Lama. Lama is a 
star in France, with a long 
string of sold-out appearances 
and hit records to his credit. He 
has a romantic history, so vital 
to the type of songs he writes. 
A nearly fatal automobile acci¬ 
dent hospitalized him for a year 
and a half. Many operations 
and a slow recovery followed, 
and this experience focused 
Lama’s songs on the philo¬ 
sophical side. He writes of love 
(lost or unobtainable), ' youth 
(lost and not to be regained), 
innocence (lost and irretriev¬ 
able), and loneliness (found, 
everywhere). Trouble is, this 
ground has been covered be¬ 
fore, and better. 

In the lobby during intermis¬ 
sion one heard again and 
again, “It’s like listening to two 
hours of Rod McKuen.” Like 
McKuen, Lama’s subject 
matter is familiar, and untrans¬ 
formed by insight or originality 
of statement. Similes choke the 
songs, the words “Like,” “as,” 
or “resembling” never having 
tumbled so frequently through 
lyrics. 

No matter what the subject, 
we hear about skies and clouds 
and flowers and fields and 
lovers and life and death. Even 
the old chestnut, “marching to 
a different drummer.” is in¬ 
cluded. The flow of words and 
imagery is so incessant that 
meaning is frequently 
obscured. The succinct phrase 
or deftness that marks the writ¬ 
ings of others is a rarity in 
Lama’s lyrics. Nor does the 
problem lie with the transla¬ 
tions, it started with the 
originals. 

Perhaps a half dozen of the 
songs are memorable, but in 
this sort of a show, it should be 
six that are unmemorable. 


Serge Lama — current French star 
Memorial in the revue IMAGES. 


The performances are earn¬ 
est and the musical arrange¬ 
ments clever enough to make 
much ado about little. They fre¬ 
quently sound as if a major 
statement had been made, 
even when it’s not obvious 
what that statement was. Sev¬ 
eral sardonic moments are 
memorable, merely for cutting 
through the maudlin haze that 
prevails. 

If only Lama would tell us 
what he does after he makes 
love, love, love. . . 

John F. Karr 


— whose music is brought to Marines 

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11 

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You Can Go Home 
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by A. Marc Leventhal 


After a visit to New York City 
I realized how hard it would be 
to do proper coverage of it. 
Having lived there for many 
years, 1 returned not as a tour¬ 
ist but to see mostly the New 
York City of my past. It would 
have been much more fun if I 
had been experiencing it with a 
hot New Yorker like Artie 
Felson who would have shown 
me “his” Manhattan. Next 
time! 

New York City (I have never 
been able to call it just New 
York) is so big, and there is 
sooo much to see, that no 
guide book can do it justice. 
Hence I offer a few random 
notes that may make your next 


visit more enjoyable. 

Flying there: Oh how I’d 
love to give you an update of 
airfares, but they change and 
increase constantly — and ir¬ 
regularly. I suggest that you 
call your Travel Agent for the 
current fares. Be prepared to 
buy your ticket now since a 
quoted fare today may not be 
the price when you go to pur¬ 
chase your ticket. Pan Am has 
a stand-by fare if you can take a 
chance on not being guaran¬ 
teed a seat on the day you wish 
to travel. Other airlines have 
Super Saver airfares that may 
be your best bet if looked in 
advance. Why not treat your¬ 
self to First Class on a night 


flight which will cost you the 
same as a coach seat daytime. 
Whatever you do.' don’t fly 
World Airways. More on that 
“Queer’-hating airline next 
issue. 

Upon arrival at J.F.K.. take 
the special train, the new 
J.F.K. Express, directly into 
Manhattan. Outside each air¬ 
line terminal a bus will whisk 
you over to the train station 
where you catch a CLEAN. 
GUARDED, “subway” train for 
$3.50. Operating every twenty 
minutes, express trains will 
speed you to mid-town Man¬ 
hattan in about an hour. No 
traffic to worry about. The eight 
convenient stops include West 
4th Street/Washington 

Square. 34th Street, 42nd 
Street. Rockefeller Center, and 
57th Street. 

Where to stay in New York 
City? Well, you might try the 
only listed Gay hotel, Ossi’s 
Guest House located at 358 W. 
30th Street (10001) — tele¬ 
phone: (212) 695-5393. 

Comparable to a European 
Pension, Ossi’s is within walk¬ 
ing distance of Madison Square 
Garden, the Post Office, Penn 
Station, and to the theaters 
northward or a much longer 
walk south to the Village. Bus 
service on 8th or 9th Avenue 
will easily get you uptown to 
Central Park or downtown to 
The Mine Shaft. Taxi service is 
plentiful in the area. It is not the 
greatest of neighborhoods, but 
the boys who run the place are 
very friendly, the coffee pot is 
always on, a bar is available, 
and the guests are Gay. Don’t 
forget to say I sent you; and 
sign the “guest wall” where you 
will probably find names of 
many people you know. 

Of course, the hotels in the 
Theater district may be more 
convenient. Again, you’d 
better let your Travel Agent 
help you here. Just him know 
the price range you are looking 
for. Good hotel space is hard to 


get and most will require a first 
night's deposit. 

A service to theater-goers is 
the Tickets booth (TXTS) 
located on Broadway and 47th 
Street, right in the middle of a 
traffic island, where tickets are 
available at half-price for most 
plays and musicals (On and Off 
Broadway) for that evening’s 
performance. Be prepared to 
stand in line. You can also find 
a few half-price tickets for a few 
shows at a little Convention & 
Visitors booth on Seventh and 
39th Street where the old Met 
used to be (Remember the old 
Met?). 

Where to dine? There are so 
many different styles of cook- 


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still has the best variety of res¬ 
taurants that will appeal to the 
Gay traveler. An old favorite of 
mine. Fedoras, still has great 
dining, strong drinks, super 
pier, and low-cost specials. 

You’ll have a fun time dis¬ 
covering or re-discovering New 
York City. Artie, I am looking 
forward to seeing your Man¬ 
hattan next time. 


The Theatre Development Fund’s ticket booth at 47th Street and Broadway 
in NYC where seats for performances city-wide are sold at l / 2 -price on day of 
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by Frank Howell 


The Family 
That Lays 
Together... 

Milwaukee, Wiconsin 

When two men wanted to be 
each other’s natural heirs and 
wanted to share last names, 
they found the cheapest and 
easiest way to do this was for 
one of them to become a 
parent — of the other. So, a 
twenty-one year old Wisconsin 
man adopted a twenty-three 
year old Wisconsin son. Re¬ 
serve Circuit Court Judge Elliot 
Walstead said, “It was an 
unusual petition, but there was 
nothing to indicate they were 
homosexuals. And if there was 
something, I don’t know if it 
would have been any of my 
business.” The judge granted 
the petition in January in his 
Milwaukee County Probate 
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and The Gay Imagination — 
An Anthology 
Edited by Byrne R. S. Fone 
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New York, N.Y. 10014) 

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Every minority group needs 
to cultivate an appreciation of 
the past as it relates to their 
own sense of confidence. If we 
have a firm grasp of where we 
have been, then we’ll achieve a 
better idea of where we are 
headed. 

Younger Gays need a firm 
grounding in homophile 
history. Who were the heros 
and heroines of our move¬ 
ment? What were the great 
historic moments? Some 
people have the feeling nothing 
happened in Gay history be¬ 
fore Stonewall in 1969! 

One high school student re¬ 
cently scorned the older gen¬ 
eration regarding their attitudes 
about rock and roll music. After 
all, said he, in your day there 
were no dance bands. It all 
started with Elvis Presley! He 
apparently had never heard of 
Benny Goodman, Tommy 
Dorsey, or a host of other 
famous performers of the 
1930’s, ’40’s and ’50’s. Igno¬ 
rance of the past can be truly 
embarrassing. 

This rich anthology, 
“Hidden Heritage,” ranges 
widely from the ancient Greeks 
to the 20th Century. 

Professor Fone has un¬ 
leashed the power of fiery ideas 
from Plato’s “Symposium,” 
J. A. Symonds’ “A Problem in 
Greek Ethics,” Andre Gide’s 
“Coydon,” Eric Bentley’s “The 
Homosexual Question,” and 
the writings of Oscar Wilde, 
Lord Byron, Edward Carpen¬ 
ter, and Havelock Ellis. 

Scholars will be grateful. 
Some of the material gathered 
here may be difficult to locate 
elsewhere. Many of the original 
books have been out of print 
for at least fifty or sixty years. 

Dr. Fone’s commentary is in¬ 
formative and the chronology 
is logical. 

Fone is an associate profes¬ 
sor of English at the City Col¬ 
lege, New York. His current 
project in progress is “The 
Homosexual Imagination and 
Literary Tradition.” 

A generous harvest of love 
poems and gems of wit are 
scattered throughout the col¬ 
lection. Example, “At A 
London Music” by Horatio 
Brown (1900): 


Two rows of foolish faces blent 
In two blurred lines; the compliment, 

The formal smile, the cultural air, 

The sense of falseness everywhere. 

Her ladyship superbly dressed — 

I liked their footman, John, the best. 

The tired musicians' ruffled mien. 

Their whispered talk behind the screen. 

The frigid plaudits, quite confined 

by fear of being unrefined 

His lordship's grave and courtly jest — 

/ liked their footman, John, the best. 

Remote I sat with shaded eyes. 

Supreme attention in my guise, 

And heard the whole laborious din, 

Piano, ‘cello, violin; 

And so, perhaps, they hardly guessed 
I liked their footman. John, the best. 

Some of our allies in the Vic¬ 
torian period, though well 
meaning, sometimes made re¬ 
marks that tended to help the 
enemy instead. De Joux, who 
was fond of “Uranian men and 
women” as we were often 
called in those days, said the 
following. 

They are enthusiastic for poetry 
and music, are often eminently 
skillful in the fine arts, and are 
overcome with emotion and sympa¬ 
thy at the least sad occurrence. 
Their sensitiveness, their endless 
tenderness for children, their love 
of flowers, their great pity for beg¬ 
gars and crippled folk are truly 
womanly. 

These documents deserve to 
see the light of our day. For 
many of the pioneers of human 
sexuality of this time antici¬ 
pated Kinsey and those who 
followed. Their insights were 
keen, and we need to keep 
their spirit alive. 


Scientists 
Discuss Gay 
Issues on KSAN 

A Tennessee scientist 
couldn’t get a security clear¬ 
ance until he wrote and had 
published in his hometown 
newspaper a letter supporting 
Gay liberation. The govern¬ 
ment requested him to write 
the letter so there would be no¬ 
body left to blackmail him. 

That’s just one of the stories 
told at a panel on “Problems 
Arising from Homophobia in 
the Scientific Workplace” at the 
American Association for the 
Advancement of Science’s re¬ 
cent San Francisco meetings. 

This weekend, “The Gay 
Life” on KSAN, 95 FM, pre¬ 
sents an hour of taped high¬ 
lights from that panel. Randy 
Alfred hosts “The Gay Life,” 
Saturday morning at 5AM, 
February 2. The show is re¬ 
peated late Sunday night at 
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Will Seagers — packing them in for L.A. TOOL & DIE now at the Nob Hill. 
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Fourteen days have passed 
since I saw your shiny faces 
and needless to say, the natives 
have been restless! Two major 
fires have erupted on lower 
Folsom where RUSH, the 
“sexual stimulant” is/was being 
manufactured and one in the 
T’loin where it is/was sold; the 
Off-Broadway is featuring male 
strippers on Mon. & Tue. 
nights, but you’re guaranteed a 
better show EVERY night at 
the CORN HOLES on Folsom; 
Connie dropped out of the 
Empress XV race in a teary 
announcement at the 
N’TOUCH last week, leaving 
Bubbles, Remy and Tessie to 
run for an office which as soon 
as you win it, the public starts 


tearing you down; Don P. of 
the WARLOCKS M/C had so 
much fun at the 4-way bike 
christening at FEBE’S, he fell 
off the wagon, just one day 
short of three weeks in a New 
Year resolution that was sup¬ 
posed to last 366 days; con¬ 
sensus of opinion in the 
LAVENDER POLL last week is 
that 94% of those polled on 
Castro & Folsom are going to 
see the controversial movie, 
CRUISING, when it opens 
here, justifying their belief in 
the First Amendment. 


MEMO FOR HERB CAEN: 
Jerry Long, the fellow who 
caught Dianne’s garter at the 


fairy tale (fairy tale?) wedding 
in Twitty Hall last Sunday is 
NOT straight, (SF Chronicle, 
Tue., Jan. 22) according to 
“informed” bank execs who 
should know; as a matter of 
fact, Mr. Long has been wear¬ 
ing that garter ever since he 
caught it. If he were nellie, it 
might not be so bad, but as it 
stands, the same sources say 
he’s a butch, macho hunk, but 
even THOSE types have 
fetishes as you may or may not 
already know! 


The Barbary Coasters M/C 
announce the 14th Annual 
Motorcycle Awards for Sun., 
Feb. 17, in the basement of 
California Hall. Tickets are 
$7.50 and there is limited seat¬ 
ing. Translated: 500 seats 

only, so get yours early. I don’t 
know if nostalgia had anything 
to do with it, but according to 
Matt Brown, the basement of 
Calif. Hall is the site of the first 
annual bike awards, years ago! 
See the list of nominees in this 
issue of B.A.R. 


SCOOPS DE VILLE... 

New bar opened SofM two 
Sundays ago in the 200 block 
of 6th Street (Muscatel 
Meadows) right across the 
street from the GLORY 
HOLES and it’s called MAN’S 
COUNTRY. When I popped 
in, it was full of drag queens, 
but with the Empress race on 
these weeks, so are ALL the 
other bars . . . Is SF ready for a 
black emperor? From South of 
Market; from a bike club? Why 
not? Stay tuned for further 
developments . . . Major reno¬ 
vations taking place at the 
21ST STREET BATHS - new 
carpets, a giant Jacuzzi whirl¬ 
pool and a man maze — 
sounds creamy . . . “Drop your 
cocks and grab your socks” 
may have been the wake-up 
slogan for many an ex-G.I., but 
in SF and in the 80’s it has only 
one meaning: The FOOT 

FRATERNITY, a new Gay 
“anatomy” group dealing with 
sox, shoes, feet, etc. If you’re 
inclined to areas lower than the 
groin, write to Foot Fraternity, 
P.O. Box 3385, SF 94119 . . . 
Speaking of fetishes, Jimmy 
Miller of the HANDBALL EX¬ 
PRESS announced that they 
are installing a surgical table on 
the premises for those of you 
into body shaving . . . The 
HEADQUARTERS on 

Clementina is now open after 
hours and serving up crispy 
and tasty pizza; if you wanna 
pizza de action in other areas of 
the place, you have to KNOW 
somebody . . . The ASYLUM, 
SofM’s newest bar-to-be is still 
forging ahead trying to comply 
with the City’s bureaucratic de¬ 
mands and shooting for a Feb. 
1st opening date. The wait will 
be worth it. . . And remember, 


you read it here first! . . . The 
Anxious Arms Hotel on How¬ 
ard ever waiting to encase (I 
mean embrace) you. . . 


THE TOWER OF 
BABBLE. . . 

John Scholten, the morning 
maharajah of mixology at the 
BAL(C)ONY has been side¬ 
lined due to a broken foot and 
confined to checking ID’s at the 
door. Last Saturday, John 
caused a considerable number 
of knowing snickers when the 
customers spotted a patch on 
his left arm which read: Dept, 
of Animal Control. Down Fido! 
... In my last column (B.A.R ., 
Jan. 17) I listed the full moons 
for 1980 to which many of you 
pointed out that I had left out 
February; the truth of the mat¬ 
ter is that there was a full moon 
on Wed.^ Jan. 2, and the next 
one is tonight, Jan. 31, thus 
eliminating February altogether 
— onward! . . . Also in the last 
issue of B.A.R., the magnifi¬ 
cent photo of Mr. Leather Int’l, 
David Kloss, was by Patrick 
Lee, a young, energetic pho¬ 
tographer making a BIG splash 
with his scintillating lens work 
. . . Wanna know the biggest 
complaint from dudes living 
South of Market? It’s not the 
bars, restaurants or baths (ex¬ 
cept for ONE bath house in 
particular but more about 
THEM later), but the lack of a 
laundromat down here. 
Wouldn’t it be nice if some en¬ 
terprising Gay dude would in¬ 
vest his money in such a place? 

. . . You know you’ve got a 
good lawyer when you get 


charged with sodomy and he 
gets that charge reduced to 
“following too close” . . . Two 
young hippie types crawled 
into the HANDBALL EX¬ 
PRESS the other night through 
the ceiling trap door and when 
discovered explained they 
were “looking for dope.” Well, 
you KNOW Jimmy Miller is 
death on drugs, so he made 
them leave the same way they 
came in . . . Don’t forget the 
15th Empress de San Francisco 
will be crowned Sat., Feb. 2, at 
California Hall, followed the 
next night by Bob Cramer’s 


When YOU see 
a guy in chaps 
with the zipper 
on the 
OUT side, 

ash him 

if they are the 
ORIGINAL 
STYLE 

by the guy called 

ill if. 


5720 MELROSE AVE. 
Los Angeles, CA. 90038 

BEFORE you buy 
an IMITATION, 
send $1 for more 
details about... 

The chaps 
that put 
the zipper 
on the 
OUT 
side! 

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Engineer Boots $39.00 • Levi 501’s $14.95 
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Open 6 Days Noon-7pm Sundays 2-6pm 

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BOB’S BAZAAR JANUARY 31, 1980 PAGE 29 






























mm? 


Earthy it may be. but this mural has never been unearthed: it's part of the 
decor at the Handball Express. 


CASTRO V.D. CLINIC 

Health Center #1 has extended the days and hours of its 
Men’s V.D. Screening Clinic. The free Clinic is now held 
Monday through Thursday, 1:00 to 7:30PM. All sexually 
active male residents of San Francisco are encouraged to use 
this Screening Clinic at least once every three months. For 
information, contact Ron Snyder at 558-2226, Monday 
through Friday, 1:00 to 5:00PM. 


CABLE CAR AWARDS (Feb. 
3) at the JAPAN CENTER 
(KABUKI) THEATER on Post. 

I want to thank whoever nomi¬ 
nated me for Outstanding 
Social Columnist, and 1 
promise to try to live up to the. 
flattering accolade. 

★ ★ ★ 

THE GNASHVILLE 
EXPRESS. . . 

As if we didn’t have enough 
to do to improve our lot in so¬ 
ciety, comes now a barrage of 
complaints about the CLUB 
BATHS on 8th & Howard who 
recently refused admittance to 
one of their regular customers 
because his driver’s license had 
expired! In another complaint, 
a young black was refused 
even though he had four (4) 
pieces of ID, all with pictures. 
In both cases, a management 
type knew the persons 
involved. Neither are fat, fern, 
feeble, drunk, or doped. The 
third complainant states he 
might have had too much after 
shave lotion on, so he too was 
refused. Repeated calls to the 
Club Baths for a spelling-out of 
their rules elicits only a loud 
piercing signal. Do we really 
need this bullshit? Didn’t the 
community once picket this 
place for similar practices? Do 
they know that even now, law¬ 
suits are planned? Let’s hear 
from you, CLUB BATHS! This 
is San Francisco and this is 
1980! How can we, who are 
discriminated against, begin 
discriminating amongst our¬ 
selves? The public awaits your 
rebuttal. I hope it’s good. 

MISTER MARCUS 


February at the 
Is... Leap Year 



'N\* 


TWO GREAT FEBRUARY PROGRAMS- 
JAN. 31 thru FEE. 13 


Madness! 


HARD WORKING MEN and NOLL BROS. 


THE TWELVE AUTO-FELLATIO KINGS 

Part 1 of this 2-part series plays Jan. 31 thru 
Feb. 6. Part 2—a completely different program 
on same theme and titles-plays Feb. 7 thru 13. 
Here are two of the most incredible film presen¬ 
tations on the 'Do-Your-Own-Thing' subject ever 
presented anywhere ever! 


Call it Lunacy, Madness or Lust—The Seven Committee guarantees that the month of February, 1980 
will be Super Hot for all of its movie-going members! 

First, there’s a sliding-scale price reduction for entering the Club in effect from January 28 through 
February 29. Here’s how it works: Open at 12 Noon, $1 until 1 p.m.; $2 until 2 p.m.; $3 until 3, $4 
until 4 and on up to $5 at 5 p.m. ($4 admission runs from 3-5 p.m.). 

Then here come the goodies.. . LIVE SHOWS each Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday evenings at 6 & 9. 

Hot young numbers on stage to come up with what you want! 

Another special wish will be granted on these evenings—You may request a re-showing of any film 
in our library (if we can conveniently find it) in case you have a favorite you want to see again, in 
addition to the regular programming on both the screens. Just ask for it and we’ll try to put it on! 

Remember, however, this special price scale and live shows scheduled above applies ONLY on 
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We promise to stay open evenings until everyone is satisfied. 
Regular pricing at $4 until 6 p.m., then $5 thereafter, with the regular live show at 9 p.m. will be in 
effect on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 

COMING UP during February—New films from Colt, Target, Falcon, Grand Prix, TradeMark and 
other filmmakers. Watch our bulletin board in the Adonis Bookstore! 

BE AN EARLY BIRD—THE PRICE IS CHEAPER! BE A NIGHT OWL—HAVE A BALL OR TWO! 


ENTER THROUGH 
ADONIS BOOKSTORE 


NOT A PUBLIC CINEMA - 
FOR ADULT MEMBERS ONLY 


PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP CLUB. 

YOU MAY JOIN—$2 for 6 months, $3 for 1 year 
(Identification required) 

Seven (2&4HHuttee 


384 ELLIS ST., SAM FRANCISCO 474-6995 


Voting in Progress 

Barbary Coasters Honor Bikers 
in Awards Conclave on Feb. 17 

WARLOCKS — 18 NOMINATIONS 

by Mister Marcus 

All tlie pomp, pageantry, and sparkle of organized bikers will 
manifest itself for the 14th consecutive year on Sunday, Feb. 
17, at California Hall (Polk & Turk Sts.) when the doors open 
at 4PM for a colorful ceremony sponsored by the Barbary 
Coasters M/C, honoring the elite of bike clubs in San Francis¬ 
co, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Long Beach. 

Voting in thirteen categories is taking place at this very 
moment while simultaneous plans are being made for another 
big weekend in San Francisco with club-oriented persons con¬ 
verging on the city to participate in a myriad of activities spon¬ 
sored by the major bike clubs in California. 

Voting for the awards is divided in three categories this year: 
Division I — for bike club members only; Division II — for per¬ 
sons who attended two or more bike runs; Division III — for 
persons who participated in rider and buddy rider events on 
two or more bike runs. 

The nominees for the various categories are led by the War- 
locks M/C with 18 nominations, followed by the Barbary 

Coasters M/C with 16 nominations. Those individuals and 
clubs nominated are: 

Division I — Club Vote (Club Members Only) 

BEST OPEN SOCIAL FUNCTION — Constantines, Mix ‘N’ 
Match; Phoenix, Spit & Polish; SFGDI, A Date at Minsky’s; 
Warlocks M/C, Witches Christmas 

BEST ONE DAY RUN — Barbary Coasters M/C, Fiesta Run; 
CMC, Tax Break Run; Warlocks M/C, Easter Run 

MAN OF THE YEAR — Matthew Brown, Barbary Coasters 
M/C; Allen Dale, Warlocks M/C; Michael Gill, Independent: 
Jim Leur, SF GDI; Don Penniman, Warlocks M/C 

Division II — For persons who attended two or more runs 

BEST RUN THEME — BC’s/Constantines, X-Rated Run; 
CMC, Hello Rainier Hello; Cheaters M/C, Childhood Daze; 
SF GDI/SF Serpents/Valley Knights M/C, Late Late Late Re¬ 
run; Warlocks M/C, The Big Top 

BEST NON-BIKE COMPETITIVE EVENTS ON A RUN - A 
Star is Born, SF GDI/SF Serpents/Valley Knights M/C; Dildo 
Pick Up/Chopsticks, BC’s/Constantines; Form A Dick, BC’s 
Constantines; Gold Pan, BC’s/Constantines; Stilts, Warlocks 
M/C 

BEST NUMBER IN A RUN SHOW - Bad Girls - Ken, Gary, 
Charles; If They Could See Her in My Eyes - Tony Lobini & 
Tony Palermo; The Rules - Miss Mona & The Girls; They’re 
Playing Our Song - Warlocks M/C; When You’re Good to 
Mama - Dan Hosey & Jim; You Mustn’t Be Discouraged - 
Chuck Durham & Matt Brown 

BEST FOOD ON A WEEKEND RUN - BC’s/Constantines; 
Cheaters M/C; SF GDI/SF Serpents/Valley Knights M/C 

Division III — For people who participated in rider and 
buddy rider events on two or more runs 

BUDDY M/C EVENT OF THE YEAR - Grab for the Brass 
Ring, Warlocks M/C; Soft Shoulders, BC’s/Constantines; The 
Animal Tamer, Warlocks M/C; Flying Trapeze, Warlocks 
M/C; The Old In & Out, BC’s/Constantines 

RIDER MOTORCYCLE EVENT OF THE YEAR - Cock & 
Ball Story, BC’s/Constantines; Double Slalom, SF GDI/SF 
Serpents/Valley Knights M/C; Load the Man Into the Can¬ 
non, Warlocks M/C; The Old In & Out, BC’s/Constantines; 
The Performing Seals, Warlocks M/C 

BEST OVERALL MOTORCYCLE EVENTS - BC’s/Con¬ 
stantines; SF GDI/SF Serpents/Valley Knights M/C; War- 
locks M/C 

BUDDY RIDER OF THE YEAR — Matthew Brown, Barbary 
Coasters M/C; Gene Dennis, Independent; Ken La Pierre, 
Barbary Coasters M/C; James A. McCubbin, Independent; 
Bill Tye, Independent 

RIDER OF THE YEAR - Alan Dale, Warlocks M/C; Bill 
Donovan, Independent; Larry Emge, Warlocks M/C; Chuck 
Mineheart, Warlocks M/C; Rocky Rockwell, Warlocks M/C 

Almost 40 bike clubs from throughout California will partici¬ 
pate in the ceremony, a colorful pastiche of heraldry, uniforms 
and camaraderie creating a spectacular background for the 
winners of the coveted awards. 

Tickets to the awards program and show are available at 
$7.50 from any Barbary Coasters M/C member or at Febe’s 
and the Ramrod and various other bars around town. A no¬ 
host bar with cocktails at club prices will be available through¬ 
out the extravaganza. Interested parties are reminded that 
there is limited seating in the basement of California Hall, the 
site of the 1st Annual awards program. 


BOB S BAZAAR JANUARY 31, 1980 PAGE 30 











Sweet lips Sex 


by Dick Walters 




B.A.R Staffers Nominated 

Cable Car Awards 
February 3 


Come on down for the 
Sweet Lips Sweetheart Look- 
Alike Valentine’s Day Party on 
Thursday, Feb. 14, from 8PM 
till ? with champagne, etc. 

Jay “Ethel” Noonan is now 
on the planks Sunday & Mon¬ 
day nites with yours truly the 
same day at Sweet Lips ... a 
saloon. Little Joe Coffinger 
and Dallas Nicholson (formerly 
of the Sausalito Inn) make up 
the rest of the staff. 

Just had a letter from John 
“Virginia” Kehr and he is mov¬ 
ing back here in March — hates 
the snow in Ohio. 

Daddy Joe Roland’s Lithu¬ 
anian Party is Wednesday, 
Feb. 20, this year at the Gang¬ 
way . . . don’t miss this one, as 
it is always a blast! 

Yes, Reba is back to work at 
Queen Mary’s Pub . . . hope 
you enjoyed your week of 
leisure, Reba! 

You can still get tickets for 
Coronation ’80 at the Wooden 
Horse from Greta. Ginger has 
a great trip planned for Satur¬ 
day night, Feb. 2. 

Of course, the Cable Car 
Awards are the next evening at 
the Kabuki Theatre and it 
should be HOT. 

Thank you, Bobby Pace and 
Snow White of the Twin Peaks, 
for a fun Saturday afternoon 
. . . Mel Square, you never 
looked lovelier. 

Lorenzo, when are you 
going to start doing your 
famous burritos again? 

Mario of Club Dori fame has 
lost a lot of weight and looks 
just fabulous! 

Fillmore Street is getting to 
be THE street for Gay bars — 
now there are three in a two- 
block area. Tom Sanford has 
already tagged it “Terrific 
Heights.” 

That long-time resident from 
Germany, Dieter, has left VW 
and has opened his own body 
and paint shop upstairs on 24th 
Street between Castro and 
Noe. Try him for reasonable 
work. 

Thank you, Lance Rider, for 
the great sketch you did of me. 
You are a very talented 
person. 


Mike Dooley is still at Jack¬ 
son’s on Powell near Bay. 
They have completely redone 
Jackson’s and the food is great. 

Hope Billy Buns of Totie’s is 
going to Key West to visit Gus 
and his new flame. 

The Rafters Inn is now open 
for lunch and dinner ... hi, 
Stark! 

It was nice seeing you again, 
Kenny Allison of the Kokpit. 
Married life seems to agree with 
you. 

Thank you, Cora, for all of 
the wonderful things you have 
done for me. 

Studio West, along with 
many other hot spots, will do it 
up Valentine’s Day. They 
promise hors d’oeuvres, buffet, 
balloons, favors and a free 
champagne toast. 

Remember to vote for 
Empress XV Saturday, Feb. 2, 
from 9AM to 5PM at Gordon’s, 
118 Jones St. 

Chop’s on Market near 
Castro is doing another 
Country Western Party (its 
10th) this Sunday, the 3rd. 

And out on Mission, El Rio is 
getting the jump on Carnival, 
Feb. 17 and 18. 

Cinemattachine 
Alive and Well 

Cinemattachine and the 
Circle J Cinema, 384 Ellis, San 
Francisco, is NOT closing, re¬ 
ports Hal Call, director of the 
popular private film club 
operated by the Mattachine 
Society’s Seven Committee. 
The club is one of the first such 
operations in the Gay commu¬ 
nity, dating back almost a 
decade. 

However, Call adds, the 
operation has lost a lease on its 
present premises (the building 
was sold and new owners have 
other plans for the property) 
and is presently making ar¬ 
rangements for a new location. 
No move, however, is expect¬ 
ed before April, 1980. 

In the meantime, improved 
policy changes have been an¬ 
nounced for the club, including 
live stage shows each night of 
the week. Details appear else¬ 
where in this issue of B.A.R. 


Six years ago, then-Emperor 
Bob Cramer and his Cable Car 
Court originated awards to pay 
tribute to individuals in all areas 
of the Gay community. As the 
awards ceremony has pro¬ 
gressed, it’s gotten bigger and 
better and more spectacular — 
and the 1980 presentation will 
be no exception. 

The Sixth Annual Cable Car 
Awards and Show will be pre¬ 
sented Sunday evening, Feb. 
3, at 7PM. This year the 
popular event will take place at 
the Japan Center Theatre, 
1881 Post Street (at Fillmore). 
Gay community celebrities 
Armistead Maupin and Pat 
Bond will host this evening of 
recognition and entertainment. 

The theme for this year’s 
event will be “Outstanding,” 
emphasizing recognition of the 
best achievements in the Gay 
community. Categories for 
awards have been expanded to 
include the fields of journalism, 
sports, entertainment and com¬ 
munity service. Two special 
awards will be featured: The 
Harvey Milk Community Serv¬ 
ice Award, to be presented by 
Supervisor Harry Britt; and the 


Dorothy Langston Human 
Rights Award, to be presented 
by Mayor Dianne Feinstein. 

When ticket holders arrive at 
the ceremony February 3, 
they’ll be given ballots to vote 
in most categories of the 
awards. Nominations for indi¬ 
vidual awards have already 
been made by select commit¬ 
tees composed of individuals 
knowledgeable in specific cate¬ 
gories. In the categories of busi¬ 
ness advertising and poster 
design those who attend will be 
able to view the pieces nomi¬ 
nated before voting their 
choices. Balloting in all cate¬ 
gories voted on by the public 
will begin when the doors 
open. Voting will close at 
7:30PM. The show will begin 
at 7PM. 

Entertainment will be provid¬ 
ed by the Men About Town. 
This special group of 12 
members from the San Fran¬ 
cisco Gay Men’s Chorus will 
offer popular contemporary 
songs under the direction of Bill 
Ganz. And the San Francisco 
Gay Freedom Day Marching 
Band and Twirling Corps — 
performing together and in a 


small ensemble throughout the 
evening — will be conducted 
by Jon Sims, 

This sixth annual 
presentation of the Awards 
once again will attempt to in¬ 
volve as broad a spectrum of 
Gay lifestyles and people as 
possible. With that in mind, 
everyone is encouraged to 
“come as you are.” Express 
yourself. Come as you dress 
for work — or if you like, come 
dressed in your favorite drag. 

Writers for the B.A.R. have 
been nominated in three cate¬ 
gories: Outstanding Achieve¬ 
ment in News Journalism, Out¬ 
standing Achievement in 
Entertainment Journalism, and 
Outstanding Social Columnist. 

In News, Wayne Friday and 
Priscilla Alexander have been 
nominated along with former 
B.A.R. staffers Bruce Pettit and 
Ray Comeau. 

George Heymont has been 
nominated again this year as 
the outstanding writer in Enter¬ 
tainment. Heymont writes the 
B.A.R. opera column “Tales of 
Tessi Tura,” reviews on the 
ballet and out-of-town theater. 

Both Marcus and Sweet Lips 
have been nominated as Out¬ 
standing Social Columnist. 
Both columnists have been 
with the B.A.R. since the paper 
started ten years ago. 




BOB S BAZAAR JANUARY 31, 1980 PAGE 31 

























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S.F. GAY RAP 

FEBRUARY SCHEDULE 

FEBRUARY 5 

1. The Credibility of the Local Gay Press 

Paul Lorch, Managing Editor, Bay Area Reporter 
2 Free Career Check-Up 

Karl Edwards, Director, Gentle Ear Counseling Service 

3. The Movie “Cruising” — What Should We Do About It? 

Naphtali 

4. Story Telling 

Bob Ruffing and others 

FEBRUARY 12 

1. Tai Chi Demonstration — Non-Boring Exercise 

Emilio Gonzales 

2. Alternative Groups and Other Ways of Meeting People 

Aryae Levy, Great Outdoor Adventures Unlimited 
and others 

3. Interaction Group 

Dave Cooperberg, MA 

FEBRUARY 19 

1. Gay Poetry Reading 

A Number of Gay Poets and Musicians 

2. Gays & Childcare — Setting Up A Childcare Center 
In Your Own Home 

Tim Curbo, Childcare Provider 

3. Creative Problem Solving — Looking at Old 
Problems in New Ways 

Stephen Poplar, MS 

4. Story Telling 

Bob Ruffing and others 

FEBRUARY 26 

1. Alcoholism and the Gay Community 

Michael Brennan, Director, Acceptance House 

2. The Psychology of S and M — A Discussion 

Tom Moon, MS 

3. Interaction Group 

Jerry Harris, Ph.D. 

San Francisco Gay Rap is held Tuesday evenings in the 
Metropolitan Community Church building at 150 Eureka St 
between 18th and 19th Sts. A $2.00 donation is requested. 

Orientation and welcome for newcomers begins the evening 
at 7:30PM, with community announcements and group meet¬ 
ings following at 8:00PM. 

Gay Rap also provides refreshments, games and Scrabble 
each week. 



THIS QUEEN V 

DOES NOT (T) 

HAVE TO “BRIBE” HIS MEN V 
WITH “GOODIES” TO GET 


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THEIR GOLD WATER. 

I DO NOT GO THAT ROUTE 
- AND IF THIS ALIENATES 
YOU, IT’S YOUR CHOICE. 

I’LL SURVIVE! 


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BOB’S BAZAAR JANUARY 31,1980 PAGE 32 


1369 FOLSOM STREET CLUB 
is the CORNHOLES SAN FRANCISCO 


BETWEEN 9TH AND I0TH STREETS • 552-6730 

HOURS • MONDAY THRU SATURDAY 6PM TO 6AM 


SUNDAY 4PM TO 6AM 


Gays Wanted 
for 1980 
Census Work 

The Bureau of the Census is 
seeking to recruit Lesbians and 
Gay men for the approximately 
275,000 temporary 

employment positions required 
for the census activity in April 
1980. The Decennial Census 
will take place on April 1. The 
results will form the basis for re¬ 
apportionment of the Congress 
and state legislatures as well as 
determining allocation formu¬ 
las for more than 100 federally 
funded programs. 

“At the suggestion of the 
President, I am writing you to 
ask your help in recruiting 
people for census jobs,” wrote 
Census Bureau Recruiting 
Director Mikel Miller in a letter 
to NGTF Co-Executive Direc¬ 
tors Charles F. Brydon and 
Lucia Valeska. Mr. Miller is 
seeking the names of individu¬ 
als who would be interested in 
this work, as well as organiza¬ 
tional contacts in each state 
who would recommend or 
refer additional people. 

“In reaching out to the Gay 
community, the Census 
Bureau appears to be making 
an effort to see that the person¬ 
nel recruiting system does not 
exclude eligible members from 
our community,” commented 
Brydon and Valeska. “We only 
wish the Census Bureau had 
started this outreach last year 
when other community groups 
were first contacted. There is 
not much time for an effective 
response. Nonetheless, we 
urge local Gay and Lesbian 
organizations to write Mr. Miller 
indicating interest in this pro¬ 
gram. He will place your group 
in touch with the nearest 
Census District Office.” Letters 
should be sent to Mikel Miller, 
Bureau of the Census, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 
Washington, D.C. 20233. 

The positions range from 
Crew Leader (paying $4.50 
per hour) to Enumerator 
($4.20 per hour) to Clerical 
($4.00 per hour or depending 
on task). Detailed job descrip¬ 
tions are available at the 
Census District Office, 30 Van 
Ness Avenue, S.F., 556-9326. 

Condoms 
Speak Out 

The National Condom Week 
Committee, comprised of con¬ 
cerned citizens and health pro¬ 
fessionals, has initiated a na¬ 
tionwide petition drive seeking 
one million signatures to draw 
public support for TV and radio 
advertising of condoms, Fred 
Mayer, Committee Chairper¬ 
son and President of the Phar¬ 
macists Planning Services, an¬ 
nounced today. 

“The Code Authority of The 
National Association of Broad¬ 
casters continues to disallow 
ads that would promote public 
acceptance of the condom as 
an aid in preventing venereal 
disease and unwanted preg¬ 
nancies,” Mayer recently stated 
in a San Francisco press con¬ 
ference. The Committee be-' 
lieves that TV and radio adver¬ 
tisement of condoms ‘will in¬ 
crease their usage and can 
have a profound effect on the 
current high rates of V.D. and 
teenage pregnancies. 

Additional information may 
be obtained by writing to Phar¬ 
macists Planning Services at 
P.O. Box 1336, Sausalito, CA 
94965. 













Kitty Stephens, Gay Female ■ Cable Car Award Athlete of the Year. (Photo 
by Nancy James), 



iom Waddell, M.D. — Cable Car Award Gay Male Athlete of the Year. 


GAY 

GRAPHICS 

TYPESETTING 

LAYOUT 

LOWEST PRINTING RATES 

861-7232 

BUSINESS CARDS, BROCHURES, FLYERS 


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• Good jobs with California State Government in San 

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Francisco and Oakland 

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• Salary: $818 - $960 per month 

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•Outstanding benefits, promotional opportunities, 
public contact, jobs with variety 

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• Requirements: 40 wpm, high school graduation, one 
year clerical experience OR college or business 

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school education 

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• For more information, call the State Personnel Board 

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at 557-0576 or go to 100 Van Ness Ave, 11th Floor, 

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San Francisco 

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BOWLING ROUNDUP 


PARK BOWL 
TAVERN GUILD LEAGUE 


DeLuxe 

28 

-11 

On The Mark 

26 

-13 

Ambush Bar 

25V2-13 V 2 

Pendulum Tigers 

24 

-15 

Park Bowl 

23 

-16 

Twin Peaks 

23 

-16 

White Swallow 

2U/2-17V2 

Strikers & Strokers 

21 

-18 

Play With It 

19V2-191/2 

DJ’s 

19 

-20 

Unmentionables 

I 81 / 2 - 2 OV 2 

Grady Bunch 

I 71 / 2 - 2 IV 2 

Mr. Goodies 



& Sherbettes 

17 

-22 

Badlands 

17 

-22 

Ambush Leather 

14 

-25 

Phone Jocks 

14 

-25 

Watering Hole 

13 

-26 

Trocadero 



Transfer 

IO 1 / 2 - 281/2 


JAPANTOWN BOWL 
COMMUNITY LEAGUE 


Peter Pan 32-16 

Gustavo’s 31-17 

Browsers N ook 31-15 

Moby’s Fast Foods 30-17 

Aifie’s 28-19 

Castro Station **2 27-21 

The Mint 27-21 

1808 Club 

& Spike, 1.a. 26-22 

Pure Trash 26-22 

Men’s Room 25-23 

Totie’s # 1 25-23 

Grandma’s House 25-23 

New Bell 25-22 

Leatherworld 24-24 

Plants at Faded World 23-25 
Castro Station * 1 23-25 

Queen Mary’s Pub 21-22 

Guys and Dolls 20-28 

Village Deli 19-29 

Provincial Press 17-31 

Unknowns 17-30 

Music Hall 16-32 

MCC 16-32 

Who Cares 15-28 


Mark Brown 


B.A.R. 

Classifieds 


JOBS 

WANTED 


Hair stylist (male, age 24) for 
men & women. Vidal Sassoon 
trained, fully qualified, all 
round experience. Also make¬ 
up artist. Honest, trustworthy, 
ambitious “get ahead” type. 
(U.S. citizen) Requires: work, 
partnership, or backer. John 
Vaughan-Eckles, M.C.H.; 15 
Wallcroft St.; Skelmersdale, 
Lancs., England E3 


BUSINESS 

OPPORTUNITIES 

Restaurant, super downtown 
location Embarcadero area. 
Seats 105. Agent: Mary or 
Justine, 587-4212. E3 


RENO BAR RESTAURANT 

Lease w/option or purchase fully equipt 
bar and complete restaurant operation. 
Plus parking. Includes one bedroom 
apartment above bar with outside en¬ 
trance. All slot machines, pool table, juke 
box, cig. mach., etc., included. Kitchen 
well equipt with top equipment and walk- 
in box. This would be only bar-restaurant 
operation of this type in Reno. Call (702) 

825- 5460 and leave number or (702) 

826- 7811. Ask for Mike (Realtor) 


JOBS 

OFFERED 


Apt mngr 13 units. Fillmore & 
Hayes. Rent red. 922-7504. 

E3 


Natural food store needs versa¬ 
tile, well groomed salesperson 
for cleaning, stocking, heavy 
lifting. 4 days inc. Sunday, 30 
hrs. wk. $3.50 hr. Apply in 
person Red Apple, 2849 Cali¬ 
fornia St. E3 

Houseperson 

Marin County. Cook, clean, 
garden, like animals. Room, 
board, salary, own cottage. Ex¬ 
perienced, references. Write 
PO Box 2712, San Rafael, CA 
94901 E4 


ILLUSTRATOR 

Seeking commercial quality 
illustrator with excellent tech¬ 
nique drawing male anatomy 
in B&W. For interview call Jim 
Hoffman at 641-0721. E3 

MARIN COUNTY 

Deputy Sheriff I, to $1412 per 
mo. -I- benefits 

Deputy Sheriff II, to $1557 per 
mo. + benefits 

Contact Marin County Person¬ 
nel Office, Rm. 416, Ad. 
Building, Civic Center, San 
Rafael 94903. Phone (415) 
479-1100 Ext. 2013. 

Must apply before Feb. 6 . Fe¬ 
males and minorities are en¬ 
couraged to apply. 

CITY & COUNTY OF S.F. 

Dept, of Public Health 
101 Grove Street 

Asst Director of Clinical Serv¬ 
ices II (bilingual - Spanish/Eng¬ 
lish), to $3169 per mo. 

Psychiatric Social Worker (bi¬ 
lingual), to $1875 per mo. 

Head Nurse, Laguna Honda 
Hospital, to $1964 per mo. 

Asst Director of Clinical Serv¬ 
ices 1 (children’s programs - 
Spanish/English), to $2553 
per mo. 


JANITORIAL & MOVING CO 
Experienced cleaner, mover & 
truck driver must know city. 
THRIFT SHOP floorman, 
salesperson, asst bookkeeper. 
Call 626-7990 9-3 _E3 

Opening for P/T retail help 
poss. mgmt trainee. Call 861- 
4581. Ask for Bob. E3 


WANTED 


Stamps U.S. 1893 1934 buy 
pay cash! Collector or trade. 
Have Eumig auto proj., adult 
films! Many unused. Others 
trade for U.S. stamps. Vince, 
Tel-Ans 776-4402 E4 


FOR SALE 


73 Chev. Wagon, many new 
parts, 350 engine needs work, 
make offer. 543-2256 ask for 
Gene B3 


$29,950 up; SF, 2 BR & 
studios, owe 10%, 10% dn. Nr 
Polk, 99 yr lse, 383-1707 eve. 
_E5 

79 Harley XLS 400 miles only, 
blk & gray. No money down, 
assume lease $133/mo. Call 
851-0902 after 7PM. Keep 
trying. E3 

Noe Valley view home plus 
Income motivated seller 
Full 5 + Studio, $157,000. 
Call Golden Prop., 681-7220 
_E4 

UNIQUE BUSINESS 

Furniture stripping 7 yrs old, 
room for expansion. Easy one 
man operation. Owner reports 
net of $23,000 per year, will 
train buyer. $35,000. Campus 
Realty, 548-0363. Broker co¬ 
operation 5 % SB E4 

70 Lincoln Continental. Full 
pwr/ex cond. 552-2676 E3 

Matthew Boulton, Hester Bate¬ 
man, Paul Storr and lots of 
other old silver at Van Ormer 
and Meyer at 1980 Union, San 
Francisco E4 


MODELS 
& ESCORTS 

Hot Brentwood/In Touch Star! 
Brad - 23 yr old German/ 
Swede. Blond swimmer with a 
5'11" smooth athletic build, 
blue eyes, endowed! (415) 
863-3350_E3 

Paul, muscleman, 928-0135 
_E 6 

Enjoy An Internal 
massage by the best red 
bandana in SF. Call Bruce at 
415-621-8667 E4 


MASSAGE 


Personnel Office 
City Hall, Room 151 

Fire Protection Engineer, to 
$2654 per mo. 

Senior Telephone Operator, to 
$1033 per mo. 


Masseur; athlete; films; toys 
Total body; Barry; 552-9025 
E3 


THE MAGICK MASSAGE 
Try it! Don 431-5019 


E3 


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SUPER HUNG 

DOMINANT, HOT STUD 

Exclusively: 

for those wanting a man 

“PLAYGIRL DISCOVERY” 

DEREK 928-4255 

Leading San Francisco Model/Escort 


MASSAGE 

Black Super Masseur 
5'11", 165#, IOV 4 " cut thick, 
muscular, athletic, hairy. In/ 
Out/Travel. 24 hrs. Vers. 

DOUG 673-8383 N.HILL 
_ E4 

Intimate, caring massage. 
Completely relaxing. Thor¬ 
oughly exciting. Call Dan 
431-8361 _ E5 

Shiatsu/Swedish 
Enjoy a healthful massage. 
_ Gregg, 673-2929 E3 

Swedish massage, non-sexual 
$20. 824-6657, Eric E3 

Treat your mind and body with 
a sensual massage. David 
441-3621 E5 

Versatile nude masseur de¬ 
livers exciting, complete mas¬ 
sage anytime! Dave: 28, 
5'11", 160 lbs., clean-cut, 
trim and hung! 824-5343 E6 

Expert non-sexual massage in 
safe space. Certified. IV 2 hours 
$20. John 563-3013 after 
11AM. Revitalizing. E3 

Age 42, clean, slender. Good 
massage. Older men welcome. 
626-7863~ £5 

Private Masseur 
Complete sensual massage. 
Versatile. In/Out. Anytime, 
Dick S.F. 441-0150 

E3 

In Marin only complt massage. 
Athlete trainer Rick. Ans. svc. 
751-4300 E3 


PEOPLE 


ATTN: PHOTOGRAPHERS 
Art Central!, 330 Grove St., 
wants pix of the S.F. Police 
doing their thing, for the exhi¬ 
bition, “Cop Shots.” Call Guy 
Corry, 821-7474, 863-9890 
_ __E3 

Talented exotic performer 
wants to connect with other 
gifted people to form an enter¬ 
tainment troupe. Contact Nova 
at 444-7860 _E3 

ARTISTS 

Art Central!, 330 Grove Street, 
screening art for “Hearts,” a 
Valentine’s Day Show. Call 
Guy Corry, 821-7474 or 863- 
9890 _ E3 

Thirsty male has 6-pack for 
guys who dig water sports. Call 
Tom, 922-2708 _E3 

FOOT FRATERNITY 
Fraternity for men into feet, 
shoes, boots, socks, sneakers 
& other clothing. For info give 
name, address to Foot Frat, 
PO Box 3385, San Fran, CA 
94119 _E3 

Video Buffs 

Let’s make & copy our own. 

625 Post #377, SF 94109 
_E5 

Wanted: young 18-25 attrac¬ 
tive Asian, Eurasian, Latino 
smooth athletic & versatile as 
houseboy & masseur, etc. easy 
cleaning chores. Must be reli¬ 
able and happy personality. 2 
hours daily, good pay for right 
person. Call Steve 626-1848. 
_E4 

WE BUY-SELL-TRADE 
GAY/STRAIT MAGS/FILM 

Green Door Books 
109 6th St. at Mission 
543-1656 

E5 


THE 


PEOPLE 


Lonely? I just might have 
someone for you! Makes no 
difference who or what you 
are, or have been! Just drop 
me a line and tell me about 
yourself and what you are 
looking for to: PO Box 11228, 
S.F.,CA 94101 E4 



W/M 40 wants so much a 
small little guy to love & share 
with. Write Larry, #26 1051 
Post, SF 94109 _E4 

Yng hot dudes Dave’s Villa 
Caprice Palm Springs action! 
Alex £4 

Handsome strong and happy 
father will affectionately spank 
naughty boys 18-24. J.D., 537 
Jones St. #3905, San Fran¬ 
cisco 94102 E4 

Want someone special for your 
very own? Handsome, shy, 
sincere, tired of 1-niters. W/M 
26, br/bedroom blue eyes, 
150. When opened up I’m ro¬ 
mantic, crazy, good humor. 
Like sports, read, music, 
travel. Want to share my life 
with someone who’s loyal, 
crazy, 20’s, masc. Plz write 
Greg, 5124B Diamond Hgts 
Blvd, SF 94131. Photo! E3 

Hot Greek passive wants to re¬ 
ceive large hung actives in 
Sunnyvale. (408) 734-4009 
evenings. E3 

If you’re a tall, dark & married 
male, 30-40, hairy body, and 
would like to have a sincere & 
lasting relationship with a male 
fern, please call Maggie, 824- 
4250. Keep trying. I’m into 
home life, not bars. No heavy 
trips. E3 

By popular demand THE 
WATERGARDEN will con¬ 
tinue to pay for your .transpor¬ 
tation from San Francisco to 
our club. Just save your re¬ 
ceipts from Greyhound or Am- 
trak, the taxi from either station 
to our door and purchase a 
regular $12 annual member¬ 
ship. You’ll be reimbursed for 
your trip immediately. A super 
deal to a.super place. We think 
you’ll agree. 

THE WATERGARDEN 

1010 THE ALAMEDA 

SAN JOSE - 275-1242 

EB 


PEOPLE 


ASIAN AND AMERICAN 
FRIENDSHIP SERVICE 

ARE YOU LONELY? 

Are you tired of the 
“cat and mouse chase”? 
Discreet, professional and 
inexpensive service. 

Call 441-8162 6-9pm daily 
_E3 

W/M-48, 5'9", 140# seeks 
45 + , hi IQ psychedelic domi¬ 
nant guy. 647-4654 E3 


1 


LOOKING FOR AN APARTMENT? 
-1 NEED A ROOMMATE? 

ppen Doors 

A Sensible Rental Location Service 
APARTMENTS: Listings/Sharing/Search 
2317 Market (Noe/Castro) 

864-5555 

OWNERS: Call for listing information 


South Bay Skiers 
Ski network forming to share 
travel & lodging expenses for 
short Sierra trips. Directory will 
be compiled; other ideas wel¬ 
comed. All ski levels. 
Interested? Write: Mike, P.O. 
Box 61192, Sunnyvale 94088 
E3 

ED. NOTE: MR. SIMMONS 
JUST MOVED HERE FROM 
TEXAS. 

What’s your SEXUAL pH? 
Or, what’s his? 

Sexual specialties, yes! Each of 
us has 14 specific types of gay 
male sexual activity that we like 
(or would like) THE MOST! 

So, are you missing out (2-4 of 
your 14 change every 2 V 2 
years), or do you want to truly 
satisfy him sexually? 
,31-year-old psychic counselor 
provides this marketable, typed 
product for each of you, after 
developing a talent proven 
specifically correct for each 
client already. $25. (You may 
want to put a copy on your 
door at the baths!) 986-3772, 
ext. 208, or leave a message. 

E3 

Smoking too much? Over¬ 
weight? Sexual/relationship 
problems? Hypnosis can help 
you. Call Dan at 431-8361. 
Cert. Hypnotherapist M.A. 
M.F.C.C. £5 


Share large Newark home. 
Bus-deck-yard-trees-frplc. Em¬ 
ployed only. Non-smoker. 
$175 + utils. 794-7234 eves. 
_E4 

Gay people doing business 
with Gay people. Keep it in the 
community with a B.A.R. want 
ad. 


FOR RENT 

500 Buchanan Street 
Studios and One Bdrms 
Large light bright rooms 
security gate garage for motor¬ 
cycles. All Gay bldg. New. 
chocolate carpets. Bay win-* 
dows. $225-325 per month. 
621-0740 or 431-9449. E3 

Rooms for Rent 

For $45/wk & up you meet the 
most interesting people at the 
Herald Hotel, catering to Gay 
clientele with a personal touch. 
144 rooms plus lg lobby & 
social area. 308 Eddy Street. 
771-7474,441-9190 E3 

Anxious Arms Hotel 
Clean, Quiet and 
Conveniently Located. 

Wkly rates $55.00 and up 
964 Howard 
Call 546-7699 

E3 


ROOMMATES 

M/F to share large house in the 
Sunset, $225 utilities paid. 
Washer & dryer, dishwasher, 
fireplace, yard. Pet OK. Call 
(415) 665-6885 _E3 

Roommate or other in April to 
share San Mateo duplex. Rent 
$200/mo. + util. For info call 
Steve after 7Pm 344-6635 
_E5 

Share apartment South of Mkt. 
30 yrs old & up, non-smoker. 
Your own bedroom, yard, near 
all bus lines. Handicapped per¬ 
son welcomed. $85 incl utilities 
_E3 

Share 2BR 2BA Foster City 
apt. Non-smoker. 572-8340. 
_E3 

GWM 36 moving to Snyvale 
area wants to meet yng M 21- 
30 for poss rmmate and/or 
lover. Call 568-2884 aft 6PM 
Warren. Sincere only! E3 


$12 nite, $69 week. Clean, 
quiet, newly restored Victorian 
rooms in hotel annex. Switch¬ 
board, sauna, lounge, share 
kitchen. Gough/Hayes Hotel, 
417 Gough, SF, 431-9131 
_E3 

$280. Unfurn large studio, 
fireplace yard 1669 McAllister 
Ph: 474-6566 _E3 

Russian River 2BR furn home, 
i.e. guest home, large fenced 
yd, up to 3 people, 3 miles to 
sea, empty now. $500 per mo, 
first, last. (707) 865-2452 E2 

Studio, $180, secure, redec. 
659 Fill., 626-1307, 4-8 E3 


Downtown SF’s newest and 
most congenial Gay hotels. 
Dozens of attractive rooms. 
Weekly rates — $28 to $38. 
Monthly rates available. 
Tourists welcome. 
Conv. loc. near Market & 
Powell. Now at 141 Eddy St. 
and 55 Mason St. 441-4188 


You’ll come to us for our sensible rates. 

But you’ll remember us for the men who stay here. 

Most could -afford to stay anywhere. But they stay at tne 100-bed 
Casa Loma. Because money can’t buy what we have. And they come 
back for more. From all over the world. Again and again. 

Come stay with us. And we’ll give you 100 good reasons to 
remem ber us. Rates and floor plan on request. (4X5) 552-7100 



610 rillmore 


Just 7 blocks off Mark* Stmt. 


Box 15308 

San Francisco, Ca 94115 


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Granny’s 

Truckers 



No Job Too Big 
or Too Small 

Our new enclosed 
truck will handle 
up to 7 rooms of 
furniture 


Billy 


431-4257 


FOR RENT 


$275.00, 2BR; $375.00, 3BR 
rest. Viet. Nudec, paint. 532 
Oak, 552-5696, 456-4724 

_E3 

$185-$205 Charming studios. 
145 Fell/Van Ness Opera Apts 
Small pets. Tony, mgr, 621- 
3367 _E4 

Studios from. $225 

1 Bdrm from.$235 

Flats from. $450 

Rooms from . . . $70 per week 

Privately Owned.No Fee 

626-0350 _ EB 

SPECIAL! 

Deluxe sleeping rooms, sauna, 
sundeck, 24-hour desk. New. 
modern and clean. From $70 
weekly or $150 monthly. 626- 
0350. CALL NOW! EB 

Youngboys Hotel rooms rea¬ 
sonable, 664 Larkin, 864-7081 
_E12 

Rooms For Rent 
For $45 wk & up you meet the 
most interesting people at the 
Hacienda Hotel. Open to Gay 
clientele. Right in downtown 
S.F., 580 O’Farrell St., 

928-3850 E3 


SERVICES 

YOUR ALARM CLOCK 

824-9090 E4 

EXPERT HOUSECLEANING 
BY MICHAEL 

Care for your home as if it were 
our own 
Call 841-2928 

E3 


Housecleaning days, eves. 

Light gardening. Exc refs. 

Phone Mark 668-4427 E3 

Carpentry 

General Contracting 
Free Estimates 
Call 285-4049 
Evenings 

_E3 

Express Your Creativity! 
Dave Starkovich 
Piano Instruction 

532-2254 E3 

HYPNOSIS 



sanBe"3~i 


552T5B5 


STARVING 
STUDENTS 
MOVING CO. 

★ FAST 

★ RELIABLE 

★ COURTEOUS 

★ SAT. & SUN. 

★ MIN. RATES 

LICENSED 

& 

INSURED 

863-4500 


LOVERS QUARREL? 

Don’t let your relationship go 
under because you and your 
partner can’t communicate. Call 
641-0229. Edgar Krout, MA, 
MFCC, Licensed Counselor- 
Therapist. 


K&G TRUCKERS 

HAULING - DELIVERY 
YARD - BASEMENT - ATTIC 
CLEANING 


Kyle 

626-5493 


Gary 


Haircuts-Perms-Body Waves- 
Henna. Professional service. 
See Tom at J.J.’s Haircutting, 
2660 Gough (at Union), San 
Francisco, 885-4040 E3 


Decks & Nothing But Decks. 
Photos of work. Free est. Von 
Meyer (415) 285-2884 E8 

Housecleaning and party serv¬ 
ices. Reliable, w/refs. $5/hr. 
(415) 431-7510 _E3 

PROFESSIONAL PAINTING 

All phases of int. & ext. work. 
Plaster-Sheetrock 
Texture, Wallpaper, Spray 

Excellent Workmanship 
Very Reasonable - Insured 
Call Gary, 626-1202 
_E2 

Tap Dance Classes held at 
Women’s Bldg., 18th & Valen¬ 
cia. Call Dick, 626-8725. 

Beginning & Intermediate 
Tap II, Monday eve. 7:00-8:00 
Tap I, Monday eve. 8:00-9:00 
E3 


GEMINI 

MOVERS 

MOVING & HAULING 
Experienced, Reliable, Careful 
Pads - New Truck 
John 929-8609, Vic 552-4425 


drafting - sketch i ng 


TTGqcs 


Home Cleaning Specialists 

- insured - dependable 

- affordable - guaranteed 

664-1312 


BANKRUPTCY/DIVORCE 

$235 fee - uncontested 

Ch. 13’s — Corps, formed 

MAX CLINE, Atty. 
658-8703 


Expert housecleaning. Call 
James, 431-2927 after 4PM. 
Sober, dependable, reasonable 
Refs upon request. 

E3 


WE’LL TAKE 
YOUR LOAD 

A Relocation Service 
Since 1973 
Large enclosed van 
Every job owner supervised 
Reasonable rates 
Extremely careful 
Call Art 
282-8085 


HAVE I GOT A MAN FOR YOU! 



A Gay Introduction Service 
for the San Francisco Bay Area 

Relationship Oriented 
Ages 25-60 Private Interviews 
Discreet 

6th Successful Year 

VISA & MASTERCHARGE Accepted 

DAVID 

THE MA TCHMA TER 

775-9169 


A MOVING 
EXPERIENCE 



621-6772 
ENCLOSED TRUCKS 
NEAR OR FAR 
EXPERIENCED 

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT 


Castle Keep — Protection and 
care of home while you’re 
away. Reasonable, reliable. 
Brochure - 85 Piedmont, S.F. 
94117, (415) 566-1374. Ins. 

E6 


Need a bartender for a private 
party or public function? Call 
the Tavern Guild, 771-6133. 

HO 


Job Unsuited to Your Abilities? 

Gentle HE«u 

Career Counseling Services 
for Gay Men and Women 
Skills Evaluation-Resumes-Interview Strategies 

Appointment 864-8445 (ext. 614) 


PHOENIX MOVERS 

TWO MEN—LARGE TRUCK 

local & tong (Mstance 

24hrs 861-8439 



FINANCIAL PROBLEMS 

Free initial consultation with 
experienced attorney. Walter 
R. Nelson, 355-0583 E3 

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michael smith san francisco 94131 (415)431-6843 

hardwood floors restored, installed, 
refinished, handwaxed, and repaired 



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RETURNS PREPARED 

BILL MARTIN, CPA 
861-1233 

2268-B MARKET ST. 

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CHEAP & AVAILABLE 
MOVING CO. 

2 MENS A TRUCK FOR HIRE 

$30 hourly 

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FIRST LINE $2.50 
All Subsequent Lines 
$ 1.00 

ALL CAPS: Double 
price of fines for 19 
spaces. 

ALL BOLD: Double 
price of lines for 16 
spaces. 

ALL DOUBLE 

BOLD: Triple price 
of lines for 12 
spaces. 

DISPLAY RATES 

UPON REQUEST 


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5th INCREDIBLE WEEK! 



L.A. TOOL & DIE is an excellent show, beautifully filmed by Richard Youngblood, intelligently — even wittily — scripted and 
directed by Joe Gage, and populated by a cast of Cecil B. DeMillian numbers. And what numbers these are. This film has more 
sex per cubic inch, and more inch per cocky dude, than any movie in recent memory. 


Will Seagers (a.k.a. Matt Harper) and Richard Locke head the cast, and are surrounded by Casey Donovan, Bob Blount (of 
INCHES), Paul Baressi, and “Happy Hustler” Michael Kearns, who is at his happiest in the knock-out orgy that opens the film. 
His profesional acting and lip-smacking lasciviousness are a delight to watch, as are the double-dozen unknown yet equally 
beautiful other men in the cast. As far as muscle, men, cock, and come go, this is Surfeit City. 

Like its predecessors, L.A. TOOL & DIE is an archtypal quest story, centered around a journey. Seagers, recovering from an 
emotional trauma, is not receptive to the advances of Richard Locke. This doesn’t bother the unflappable Mr. Locke, however, 
who follows Seagers to Los Angeles. Along the way they encounter or pass by the usual Gage Brothers’ barrage of diver¬ 
tissements, the kind you won’t find on your AAA Trip-Tik. 

First stop is a tree, to which an armed hitchhiker has hand-cuffed Casey Donovan after stealing his car. Donovan’s rescuer 
rips off his clothes and fucks him. Donovan only wanted to be set free, not sent to heaven. Further down the road Paul Baressi 
and his girlfriend cavort at a rest stop, observed by a masturbating back-packer. Like most women, Baressi’s girl has a mouth 
that can only take an inch, but that leaves us with nearly half a foot of Baressi’s cock to admire. 

Next stop for Seagers is a gas station, where he has a torrid encounter with the attendant, a thick and thickly-hung young 
man. Here is the long-overdue scene of adulation that Seagers has deserved, and it’ll make you want to see the movie twice. 
Seagers’ body is vibrantly sexual, and is displayed like the prize exhibit at the National Gallery. Forget the “Pieta,” this is what 
should be sent to the next World’s Fair. 

He next passes a college track field. Naturally, the coach is fucking a team member in his office. And naturally, when high¬ 
speed winds force Locke to pull off the road for the night, he parks next to a van filled with four sex-hungry studs. We finally 
reach Los Angeles, where a job applicant (the trim and youthful Johnny Falconberg) at the Tool and Die Company tangles with 
his prospective employer, Bob Blount. 

And once again, naturally, Locke has already been hired when Seagers arrives at L.A. T and D. In the men’s room at the fac¬ 
tory, Locke plays with the janitor, an executive and a construction worker. Seagers finally gives in to Locke, and they journey to 
Locke’s desert home for the extended and romantic finale. 

L.A. TOOL & DIE has believable acting and yards — no, reams — of crisp and taut sex visuals. The lavish display of men, and 
the glorification of Will Seagers in his romantic coupling with Richard Locke make this a rousing finale to the Gage Brothers’ 
trilogy. 

A large body of Gay mythology has now been brought successfully to the screen. It’s doubtful that these truckers, hard- 
hats, and ass-kickers will be portrayed as well, or as believably in future films. 

If you want a movie that has several dozen muscular nature men, unending sex and unceasing cum-shots. L.A. TOOL & DIE 
is your movie. Eat it up! 


Karr — B.A.R. Magazine 



A JOE GAGE FILM 



“L.A. TOOL & DIE” 

STARRING RICHARD LOCKE WILL SEAGERS PAUL BARESSI BOB BLOUNT 
MICHAEL KEARNS as jim |CASEY DONOVAN! presenting JOHNNY FALCONBERG 

and THE GAGE MEN 

PRODUCED BY SAM GAGE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOE GAGE 

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